wwp8

does anyone know the answer

os vista
acronis disk data suite

i used the above and made 2 extra partitions of my 250gb hdd

eg.

c:
F: 6gb
G: 25gb

now i realised i wanted to start over again
how do i delete/remove them so it goes back to c: again

richs2891

Either use acronis to back up the c:\ partition, to say an external drive, then reformat the drive - erasing all partitions and acrosnis the image of C:\ back to the newly formed single partition drive.
OR use a 3rd party application suck as partition magic to remove the f:\ and G:\ partions and add them to c:\

doesnt one version of vista have a disk utility built in that does just you want ? Only use Vista at work not at home so cant check.

Richard

Shark Man

Never used Acronis, but Vista's disk management can be used:

Left click windows icon thingy at bottom left of screen:

Right click "computer" --> left click "manage" --> click "continue"--> click "disk management" (in list pane on left).

Right click on relevent partition, and you have the options to delete or shrink in there.

Sometimes it may be greyed out (such as the root drive). In which case you can't do it, you need to google something like "diskpart.exe" which should do it.

Make sure you back up critical data first

wwp8

it becomes an unallocated space.

i originally merged 2 parts. to 1 using acronis

but it left me with another part of 39mb
which is really doing my head in

so i now have

C:
D: (unallocated space 7mb)
E: 39mb
F: recovery
G: 35gb
h(hidden os selector)
I 39mb

Shark Man

Should be able to delete the 39meg part - that will then become unallocated space. And then you expand(extend) another existing partition to use the unallocated space you just created.