wish to remove a hard drive partition to make the the drive a single drive C and not a C & D drive as it is now. windows xp sp2.
2007-01-02 05:00:50 · 9 answers · asked by stuart mc 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I found a way to do it a few years ago, here are the details:
There is a program that lets you try it for free that will do this (resize an NTFS Partition) and although the functions are not all there unless you buy it, the partitioning stuff is all there in the free trial and it runs forever.
First, you need this:
http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html
Then you run it and let it create a bootable floppy or cd if you are familiar with burning an iso.
First, you need to figure out if the partition you want to delete is before or after the one you want to keep.
If the one you want to delete is at the end of your drive (which it usually is not), boot to the cd or floppy and click cancel (important) then partition tools, then get over the partition you want to delete and delete it. Then get over the one you want to keep and resize it and bump the number up to the max and reboot to windows and then, just to be safe, right click on c: drive and and go to properties / tools and run error checking / automatic fix / ok reboot and you are done.
If the one you want to delete is before your windows partition, then there is more to do and you have to follow this to the T or you may not get back into windows. Here's what you do: boot to the CD or Floppy you created once before you go any further and do nothing. Just see that it works and then reboot to windows. open windows explorer and you need to get to a file called boot.ini right in the C:\ folder If it doesn't show up, you need to click on tools / folder options / view and check display the contents of system folders AND show hidden files and folders AND uncheck hide protected operating system files. Then you find c:\boot.ini and right click on it and choose properties and uncheck read only. Then double click on it and change the 2's below to 1's and save it and make it read only again.
BEFORE:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0... blah
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partiti... blah
AFTER:
boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0... blah
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partiti... blah
This is telling windows to boot to partition 1 instead of 2 the next time you boot to windows, so you need to print these instructions and get it right before your next attempt to boot to windows or you'll be hosed and you'll need to email me from somewhere. So, here goes... reboot to the cd or floppy you made and click cancel then partition tools, then get over the partition you want to delete and delete it. Then get over the one you want to keep and
click slide and change the top number to 0 (before or in front of)
and let it crunch for however long it takes, don't touch it, don't run the sweeper, hide the cat, then when it's done, you'll see that the space is now after it and you then resize it and bump the number up to the max and reboot to windows and just to be safe, right click on c: drive and and go to properties / tools and run error checking / automatic fix / ok reboot and you are done.
2007-01-06 00:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by PC Doctor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Use Partition Magic to merge to partitions together it will put all the data from the 'D' drive into a folder on your 'c' drive so nothing is lost.
2007-01-02 05:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by Startrekforever 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you already have XP on it you can not just remove the partition. If you need to make it a single drive you will have to reformat the hdd and make it one drive and re-install the OS..THanks
2007-01-02 05:06:07 · answer #3 · answered by computer_surplus2005 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You'de would desire to format the completed stress, via putting the cd and booting up from it...(restart first) it will start up an difficulty-free step via step reveal to delete the partition and make a sparkling one, then o direction reinstall XP... have exciting!
2016-10-19 09:00:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way I know is when your reinstally or installing an operating system (ie. Windows, Linux etc.) it will take you to a screen where you can choose to delete partitions.
2007-01-02 10:56:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a partition manager such as Paragon it will do it for you.You can get a copy off pc Mags
2007-01-02 05:08:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, you can't. The only way would be to completely reformat the drive, removing everything.
2007-01-02 05:05:37 · answer #7 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Partionmagic! It has a merge function!
2007-01-02 05:19:27 · answer #8 · answered by William S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you must format it
2007-01-02 05:07:30 · answer #9 · answered by yiannis the greek 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋