delete drive partition

[Guest]

Hello! I wanted to check on something before I tried it. My 120gb hard
drive has a partition to make a 60 and an other 60. I want to delete this
partion using start/control panel/administrative tools/computer management/
disk management. If you right click the partion you want to delete, it says
'delete partition'. What I want to know is if any change will happen to the
other partion. I have all my data on the first partition and no data on the
one I want to delete.
Thank you, Doug S.
Windows XP home
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hello! I wanted to check on something before I tried it. My 120gb hard
drive has a partition to make a 60 and an other 60. I want to delete this
partion using start/control panel/administrative tools/computer management/
disk management. If you right click the partion you want to delete, it says
'delete partition'. What I want to know is if any change will happen to the
other partion. I have all my data on the first partition and no data on the
one I want to delete.
Thank you, Doug S.
Windows XP home
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA

If you've no data on the second partition, then deleting it can't
possibly do any harm.


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[Guest]

Once you delete the partition all you have will be a 60 GB HDD. To use the remaining 60 GB you will need to partition it, you will then have 2 60 GB drives on 1 HDD. The same as you have now.

If you want to add the 60 GB to the 60 GB partition to have a 120 GB partition, you will need 3rd party software. The tools in XP will not do it without destroying the existing data.

I use Disk Director from www.acronis.com.

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Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________In response to__________
| Hello! I wanted to check on something before I tried it. My 120gb hard
| drive has a partition to make a 60 and an other 60. I want to delete this
| partion using start/control panel/administrative tools/computer management/
| disk management. If you right click the partion you want to delete, it says
| 'delete partition'. What I want to know is if any change will happen to the
| other partion. I have all my data on the first partition and no data on the
| one I want to delete.
| Thank you, Doug S.
| Windows XP home
| Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA
|