Partitions

cormie

Hi,
I have one hard drive with 2 partitions on it, 6GB and 20GB, I want to make just one 26GB drive.

I've tried using Partition magic and click Merge partitions, it brings up a box with a choice of the 6GB and the 20GB but when I click either it says the drive doesnt have any partitions to merge:(


That's a screenshot of what I see on the main partition magic screen.

the 6gb one has my OS on it.

Any ideas? Any feedback appreciated:)

smeggle

far as I know you'll need to fdisk it and delete the existing partitions and then reset as one partition. Used that partition magic before and it can be a pain in the neck.

Way I do it is windows 98 start up disk, boot up with that and follow proceedure to reset the drive. OS will need to be re-installed that way though ..

MrPinK

Are you sure it's not two disks rather than one disk with 2 partitions?

cormie

Thanks for the feedback.

That's a bit of a pain alright. There is definitely no way PM can just merge the two together? How would I go about doing the fdisk procedure (I'm a complete novice by the way, all I know about fdisk is it means formatdisk) how would I do it using XP?

Spunog UIE

like MrPinK asked, are you sure you don't have 2 harddrives. Open up your pc and have a look if your not sure. Thats what partition magic is reporting, 2 harddrives, not 2 partitions.

formatman

partition magic version 8 works well for me

The unofficial copies don't work well though , is it a licensed version or working trial you have ?

Are the drives NTFS or FAT 32 formatted ?

Is this drive a main drive , windows runs from this drive etc or does it just have data on it

KeRbDoG

You have two harddisks in your system cormie according to partition magic

cormie

Well hardy har har. I must have missed that when I opened it up before, yup, 2 seperate hard drives. haha, woops!! I was even thinking to myself before about the oddity of a 26gb HD! Thanks for the tips anyway! haha.

smeggle

formatman wrote:

partition magic version 8 works well for me

Don't get me wrong - oit's a handy bit of kit and I'll use it when adjusting partitions re-sizing and the likes. Just never really liked it I suppose and I prefer the old and tried/tested method of fdisk/format c:/s with windows 98 statsup disk. I use that and I know 100% it's right, with partition magic I've never felt comfortable even if it displays what I required - user prefrence I suppose.

Missed that 2 drives oops..

I'm sure I posted yje fdisk/format c:/s proceedure last week somewhere - think it was a thread requesting help on formatting a drive? last week some time.

Would be handy to have a simple stickie called say 'How To Re-install an Operating System - or Format/Re-install'...

I don't mind writing up the proceedure on how to do it...

mukki

if i were you i'd throw out the 6gig drive, its probably slowing the ide controller to ata33 for both drives, bet the 20 would run at ata-100 without it


in english - pc would be nearly 3 times faster

ps-how come i am the only one to rate your pic on that site

cormie

Haha, thanks for the rating;)

yeah, if I knew there were two HDs I would have just installed the OS on the 20GB and sold the 6gb. Gonna do that now then!

John R

Or you could just copy/move the partition to the bigger HDD with PM, save you the trouble of re-installing.

cormie

Àha:) never thought of that!! I'll give it a shot anyway:)
thanks