Hard Desk Patition

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George Saeed

I have a PC with One HDD lets say 40 GB
This HDD is partitioned as 2 partitions, one is 2 GB and
the other is 37 GB
The first partition is carrying a DOS and the 2nd is
carrying Windows XP

What I need is the following.....

A safe way to merge the 1st partition in the 2nd partition
without affecting the Windows XP installation , so that
the Machine boots correctly after that without distorting
any of the settings inside the Windows XP
 
I have a PC with One HDD lets say 40 GB
This HDD is partitioned as 2 partitions, one is 2 GB and
the other is 37 GB
The first partition is carrying a DOS and the 2nd is
carrying Windows XP

What I need is the following.....

A safe way to merge the 1st partition in the 2nd partition
without affecting the Windows XP installation , so that
the Machine boots correctly after that without distorting
any of the settings inside the Windows XP
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Partition Magic.

But you don't actually need to do this. Set the bootmanager to boot XP be
default. (XP did install its bootmanager when you installed XP, didn't it?)

BTW, it's a better idea to have two or more partitions -- C: for XP booting.,
D: and E: for data. Always keep data somewhere else than a boot partition!
It's much. much safer. My experiences with lost data has made me somewhat
paranoid. I _always_ create at least two partitions on each HD. I uses at
least one partitions for data back-ups - HDs storage space is so cheap these
days, it's foolish to risk losing data just because you don't want to pay for
2nd HD.
 
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