Erasing all partitions

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I previously used Partition Magic to partition my second
harddisk. Now I'd like to start from scratch and have my
120gig harddisk back as one partition. I've had problems
trying to do this with Partition Magic. Is there another
way to do this?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Jack Gillis]

I believe you can do this through XP's Disk Management. Just delete
each logical partition on your second HD and you should be left with one
extended partition. Create one logical drive on it, format and away you
go. I just did it on a scratch partition that I didn't care about.

Yet, I've never had any problem with Partition Magic doing just this so
I was a little rusty using Disk Management to do it.

Go for it.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run diskmgmt.msc

Delete existing partitions on the drive, create the new one using all of it.
Keep in mind that information currently stored on the drive will be
permanently lost.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[bullwinkel J. Moose]

Using PM prevents you from losing any data. You might move lots of
directories and files to the one drive you are keeping and then run a defrag
to get the rest of the files correctly together and then run PM. It should
work fine.