hard drive managment

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I have a Acer Aspire laptop with MS XP Home edition & the HDD has 2 partitions-
C & D...C is about used up & D is empty...how do I get rid of D to where I
only have C partition with total use of the entire HDD without having to wipe
my HDD clean & repartition the whole drive?
 
I have a Acer Aspire laptop with MS XP Home edition & the HDD has 2 partitions-
C & D...C is about used up & D is empty...how do I get rid of D to where I
only have C partition with total use of the entire HDD without having to wipe
my HDD clean & repartition the whole drive?
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Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista provides any way of
changing the existing partition structure of the drive
nondestructively. The only way to do what you want is with third-party
software. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there
are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next
Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you
should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used
it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but
it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

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.
 
Jam Sr said:
I have a Acer Aspire laptop with MS XP Home edition & the HDD has 2
partitions- C & D...C is about used up & D is empty...how do I get
rid of D to where I only have C partition with total use of the
entire HDD without having to wipe my HDD clean & repartition the
whole drive?
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If D is empty, why don't you just move your data (not system or
programs) to that drive? That's what it's meant for, after all.
 
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