Looking for some help with partition magic merging free space with exiting drive?

[Norman Fritag]

Hi there,
I am looking for a new group, where I find some answers to the following
question.

I have some spare space left on the hard disk with I partitioned yesterday.
I indented then to merge that partition to an existing drive.
Whether I resized or merge I ended up with an unpartitioned space???
Partition I want to merge the part of the extended partition, in this case I
want to merge drive k and O.
drive k doesn't contain any data.
Ps: I use partition magic 7.0 on win 2k machine fat32.
Any hints are much appreciated.

Kind regards
Norman

 

[Ian Roberts]

Hi there,
I am looking for a new group, where I find some answers to the following
question.

I have some spare space left on the hard disk with I partitioned
yesterday.
I indented then to merge that partition to an existing drive.
Whether I resized or merge I ended up with an unpartitioned space???
Partition I want to merge the part of the extended partition, in this case
I
want to merge drive k and O.
drive k doesn't contain any data.
Ps: I use partition magic 7.0 on win 2k machine fat32.
Any hints are much appreciated.

Kind regards
Norman

How big is your drive?
What size partitions are you creating?
How much spaced is left unused?

I use PM8.01. I have a secondary 250Gb drive split into 2 partitions. For
some reason
there is a 7.8Mb block unallocated at the beginning. (As I have so many
Gb's to play I can afford to lose a few Mb's!).

I recall it happening on other PC's with various size drives.

I think the amount of space avaiable for use depends on the disk
architecture. All quite complicated stuff unless your a real techie!

So unless you are losing tons of space its probably not worth thinking
about.

HTH

Ian





think it depends on