Hi Anand,
I have a few old hard drives I fool around with at times. On one of them
I used Partition Magic to merge two partitions into one just to see what
would happen. It told me there may be some problems in doing so, but
then after giving it the go ahead anyway, it began searching the
registry for keys pointing to the old partition and changing them to
where the info would going to be after the merge.
I wouldn't try this on anything you weren't willing to lose though. You
could always make a fake partition or two to play with, install a
program or two on one of them, then merge or whatever with Partition
Magic and see what happens.
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