Tim Slattery said:
You'll need a third-party tool. Nothing that ships with any Windows
system can combine existing partitions into a single, larger
partition.
Check out Partition Magic (
http://www.symantec.com/partitionmagic) or
similar utilities.
Moe:
I'm not completely sure I understand your situation at this point, so let me
see if I do understand it.
1. You say you partitioned your hard drive with two partitions - one 150 GB
and the other 50 GB.
2. If you were able to do so, that would mean that your system
(motherboard's BIOS and XP) supports large-capacity drives, i.e., drives >
137 GB. So I'm not sure I understand your statement that you "had trouble
getting it to copy the old drive since it refused to recognize the larger
drive." What is "it" and what was the trouble? Where's the "old drive"?
3. Anyway, you can use XP's Disk Management utility to create a single
partition on your drive after deleting the current two partitions. But if
you go that route all data on your drive will be deleted and essentially
unrecoverable. But if there's no data on your drive, or if there is and
you're willing to lose that data, then you can use the DM utility to create
a single 200 GB formatted partition if that's what you want. But understand
that all data on your partition(s) will be gone. However, if you want to
retain whatever data is currently on your two present partitions, then take
Tim's advice about using a third-party tool such as Partition Magic.
4. Ensure that your 200 GB HD is correctly configured jumper-wise. Ditto
your "old drive" if it's still connected.
Anna
