2 Partions on external HD

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Geddy Lee

Hi Group,

I have an external 2,5" hooked up with USB 2.0 on my laptop. I managed to
format both partitions( in this case G and H) without a problem.

The question is; how do I get rid of the one partition so that I just have
one partition left over? I just want to use the External HD for Data and I
do not require two partitions for that.

I am assuming that I just have to stick in the XP CD into my drive on the
laptop and then delete the drive (in this case G or H). The process will
then delete the one partition and I can then do a restart and it shouldn't
have had any effect on my regular drives on my laptop.
I just want to make sure before I throw the CD in and then wind up losing
everything on my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

GL
 
From within XP, use Disk Management to delete the one partition. If the
other partition is NTFS, you can extend the remaining partition into the
free space.
 
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Rob Elder said:
From within XP, use Disk Management to delete the one partition. If the
other partition is NTFS, you can extend the remaining partition into the
free space.
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Hi Rob,

I managed( as you described) to delete the one partition. No problem there.
But how do I extend the remaining partition to the free space? I am somewhat
lost at this point.

GL
 
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