Can I extend the active C: partition?

[Guest]

I have an 80GB hard drive divided into C: and D: partitions, approx. 40GB
each. Can I delete what's in D:, and extend C: to take up the whole 80GB
without losing anything on C:? C: of course is the active/primary drive and
is the boot drive.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Not without a third party piece of software like partition magic, and most
likely a repair install of XP.

 

[Guest]

Thanks!
What are the chances I will lose something on C:? Should I Ghost it first?

 

[Jonny]

My first flag says what's on "D:"?

 

[Des]

My first flag says what's on "D:"?

Needs a tad bit more info what are your partitons Primary (Extended ->
logical)

Desmond.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Not without a third party piece of software like partition magic,

True.


and
most likely a repair install of XP.

But why do you say that? That's not true at all. There should be no need for
a repair installation.

Chirp, if you do this with with a third-party utility, whatever software you
use, make sure you have a good backup before beginning. Although there's no
reason to expect a problem, things *can* go wrong.

 

[Jonny]

My meaning was what's on D: in reference to file purpose. Personal files?
Image? Cloned copy? Restoration source for C:?

 

[Rock]

Not without a third party piece of software like partition magic, and most
likely a repair install of XP.

Why a repair install?

 

[Guest]

D: contains variuos program files, data files, personal data etc.

 

[Guest]

Please append to last post. My idea was to copy C: and D: to a temp location
on another harddrive; repartition and format the original harddrive to one
80GB partition; tyen copy all back to the original harddrive which now has
one 80GB partition.

Thanks for your time!

 

[Anna]

Chirp adds...
D: contains variuos program files, data files, personal data etc.

Please append to last post. My idea was to copy C: and D: to a temp
location
on another harddrive; repartition and format the original harddrive to one
80GB partition; tyen copy all back to the original harddrive which now has
one 80GB partition.

Thanks for your time!

Chrip:
There is only one practical way to do what you want to do. And that is as
Ken Blake & perhaps others have indicated - you need a third-party
partition-manager type program such as Partition Magic to "merge" your two
partitions.

The only real alternative along the lines of your "idea" would be to move
whatever data you have on your D: partition to a temporary holding place
such as another HDD as you indicate; then make a fresh install of XP on your
80 GB HDD; fresh install all your programs & applications onto that drive;
copy or move over all the data previously transferred, i.e., your previous
D: partition data, to the other HDD. Copying your present C: partition to
the other HDD and then copying it back to the 80 GB HDD won't work.
Anna