I currently have a Hard drive with 5 partitions (logical drives) C through to H. My C drive is now low on memory and i want to put one of the logical drives partitioned off back onto the main C drive to create more space, preferrably my H drive. I have wiped the partitioned drive but not reformatted it.
I currently run xp pro and have partitioned the drives using the computer management facility (run/cmd/compmgmt.msc).
I have managed to delete the H drive and create free space (4.99MB) but cannot get this memory back to the C drive.
Can it be done? and if so how ...
2007-01-25 13:25:28 · 2 answers · asked by thesaxman50 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
The only thing that I know of that can create/delete/edit partitions without destroying data is called Partition Magic http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80
Normally when you need to resize a partition, you have to delete it first and then recreate it. Once you delete the partition, then all data is lost and it also need to be reformatted, which also destroys all existing data. So either way, you're out of luck. You will lose all of your data when you try to change the size. Only that partition magic can change the parition with losing data.
When dealing with partitions, its something you want to think out and plan. No offense, but that wasn't a smart idea to create so many partitions. Two is the maximum paritions I would ever create. Creating one partition of 5Mb is totally a waste.
2007-01-25 13:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by SharpGuy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Windows XP doesn't have the tools to do it. You'll need to download a proper program to do the job.
2007-01-25 21:33:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋