The previouspost is no longer generating any response so I will try again. I have a 300 GB HDD that I use for backups only, Sometime back I create two equal partitions, one for my backups and one for other data. I have since transferred the other data to other media and no longer need the second partition so I deleted it. Now I have one partition with my backup data and an equal amount of unaallocated space that I cannot use. What I would like to do is make the unallocated space available to the entire HHD so that I wind up with 300GB for my backups. The unallocated space does not contain any data so data recovery is not a problem. Can this be accomplished? William Lockie

Maybe help in this ?? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 How to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows 2000, and in Windows Server 2008

You will need a third party partition manager in order to merge the space. However, why bother? The space can be partitioned and formatted as it is now. There is no apparent advantage to having one 300GB partition or two 150GB partitions. There is some risk of data loss whenever you mess with partitions. There are some free partition managers around but I have no personal experience with any of them. I have used Partition Magic in the past and can state that program works fine. To my knowledge, all partition managers have a cautionary note to backup your data prior to using. In your case once the backups residing on the one partition were copied elsewhere, there would be no need for a partition manager. You could then simply delete the one remaining partition and then create a partition using all available space. After that you would then format the partition. If you have tested your backups then there really is no need to keep more than TWO at the most.

I agree with OtheHill, but if you insist on creating a single 300GB partition, try Partition Master. It's free & it works well. http://www.partition-tool.com/perso...

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Thanks Chuck 2, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 The above KB provide the answer. Took only 3 minutes. I now have the full 300 Gb available. William Lockie