howto delete a partition on a harddisk

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Hi
I have a harddisk with 3 partitions, C, D and E
WXPpro + all the rest of my programs is on C and now that drive is becomming too
small
How do I delete D and E so the HD only have only one partition - I do not want to
delete anything on D and E
 
erik you are going to need a thrid party partitioning application for this.
you can use partition magic, acronis disk director, or paragon partition
manager. While deleting partitions D and E is simple enough, you can do this
from the Windows XP disk manager (control panel>administrative
tools>computer management>disk managment. When the disk management window
opens right click on the drive you want to delete and then select Delete
fromt he drop down menu.) However, this is not going to solve your problem.
While you delete partition D and E the C partition will not expand. In other
words your C partition will remain the same and the deleted D and E drives
will just be classed as unallocated or free space. With partition magic,
acronis, or paragon you will be able to delete the partitions you want to
delete and then 'resize' the C partition to fill the unallocated space.
Without this third party software the most you will be able to do is delete
the D & E partitions.

Fortunately, the new Windows Vista has had the facility to stretch or shrink
partitions added.


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erik said:
I have a harddisk with 3 partitions, C, D and E
WXPpro + all the rest of my programs is on C and now that drive is
becomming too small
How do I delete D and E so the HD only have only one partition - I
do not want to delete anything on D and E
Click to expand...


Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to
do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One
such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a
free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
days. I haven't used it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such
program), but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
 
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Hi
I have a harddisk with 3 partitions, C, D and E
WXPpro + all the rest of my programs is on C and now that drive is becomming too
small
How do I delete D and E so the HD only have only one partition - I do not want to
delete anything on D and E
Click to expand...

Try Paragon Partition Manager (www.partition-manager.com), I use it and
experienced no problems before. Anyway, make backup before you do
partitioning operations.
 
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