merging partitions

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Olivier Marquet

I created a second partition D: on which I installed Vista, XP being
installed on C: .
Vista works well, allbeit slow, and I thus deleted XP from C.
Now I would like to merge D: and C: I deleted C, thinking I could expand D:
and then rename it, but that seems impossible to do with the disk manager of
Vista.

Has anyone a solution ?

Thanks in advance.
 
Olivier Marquet said:
I created a second partition D: on which I installed Vista, XP being
installed on C: .
Vista works well, allbeit slow, and I thus deleted XP from C.
Now I would like to merge D: and C: I deleted C, thinking I could expand
D: and then rename it, but that seems impossible to do with the disk
manager of Vista.
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The files to boot the system are on C. If you delete that partition Vista
won't boot. Did you actually delete the C partition? Does vista boot?
 
Rock said:
The files to boot the system are on C. If you delete that partition
Vista won't boot. Did you actually delete the C partition? Does vista
boot?
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Yes, I deleted the partition and the system boots perfectly well. This is
not my question. My question is how to expand/extend the D partition to the
(deleted )C partition.
 
Olivier Marquet said:
"Rock" <[email protected]> a écrit
Click to expand...
Yes, I deleted the partition and the system boots perfectly well. This is
not my question. My question is how to expand/extend the D partition to
the (deleted )C partition.
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In Disk Management if the unallocated space is located to the left of the D:
volume then you'll need 3rd party software. I haven't worked with any in
Vista so I don't know which ones to recommend.
 
I did the same thing. I ended up purchasing a program called Acronis Disk
manager. With a program like this you can delete, create, move and resize
partitions. I was able to fully recover all the disk space into one
partition by doing this.
 
Jim Heily said:
I did the same thing. I ended up purchasing a program called Acronis Disk
manager. With a program like this you can delete, create, move and resize
partitions. I was able to fully recover all the disk space into one
partition by doing this.
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Isn't it Acronis Disk Director? Also I thought they didn't have a Vista
compatible version yet.
 
Olivier Marquet said:
Yes, I deleted the partition and the system boots perfectly well. This
is not my question. My question is how to expand/extend the D
partition to the (deleted )C partition.
Click to expand...

You must move that partition to beginning of the disk and then you can
extend it with any program, even with system utility diskpart.exe. I can
recommend BootIt Next Generation http://www.terabyteunlimited.com for
this, it's 30-days trial is fully functional.

But, you will have probably more serious problem in the future. If you
clear nt-signature from this disk - even unintentionallly - then your
partition letter will be C, not D, and you will have lost access to your
system. In this case you must change back that signature to original (if
it will do). It can be done with many utilities, for ex. with freeware
application MBRTool. Or, you can simply recover your MBR sector from
backup - if you have one, of course.
 
It's not listed as compatible but it worked well. I deleted partition D:
which listed it as unallocated space and the
expanded Drive C: on my system to acquire the unallocated space and when I
rebooted, Vista accepted the changes > and I had a Drive C: that utilized
the entire hard drive with no errors. The product I used was Acronis Disk
Director > Suite 10. I had used it before with XP Pro for partitioning.
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Ok thanks for the update.
 
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