16vmarc

My friends pc has a hdd partition, his software was installed in the E drive and once up and running he was left with a C and E drive.

He wants to merge the two, how can he do this?

Hes running XP Home.

16vmarc

If he deleted E would it shift the space to the C drive?

The pc came like this so if he reformatted would he just have a C drive or would the E drive still be entact??

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iTrader: (1)

He'll need something like Partition Magic, which can do it. Should be about £40. Make sure he backs everything up first though.


M

molko

download a DOS tool called FDISK

Also be sure to backup the data that you want to keep

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

Surely FDISK can only do that with blank partitions? Or they will be blank once they've been merged.


M

class_A

An alternative is to download a Knoppix bootable CD and then use QTParted to merge the partitions together.

However, the main problem from the original post appears to be that applications are installed on the E: drive therefore the registry will be full of entries pointing to that partition. You could do something like exporting the registry as a text file then do a search and replace, but to be honest you'll probably find it easier just to do a complete reformat and reinstall.