Merge boot and system partition. How?

[Guest]

I've got a Win XP x64 installation, and would like some help.

Win installed on drive C (disk 0, boot partition + extended partition,
logical drive). Drive E (disk 0, system partition, primary partition). I
would like to use drive E for other purposes, and need to delete that
parition. Since it's a system partition Windows wont let me.

How do I , without a clean install of windows, turn drive C into both boot
and system partition?

Thanks in advance. :O)

 

[Guest]

Get the latest version of Partition magic, it will allow you to merge the two
partitions.

 

[Gerry]

How ancient is the latest version of Partition Magic?


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[Patrick Keenan]

I've got a Win XP x64 installation, and would like some help.

Win installed on drive C (disk 0, boot partition + extended partition,
logical drive). Drive E (disk 0, system partition, primary partition). I
would like to use drive E for other purposes, and need to delete that
parition. Since it's a system partition Windows wont let me.

How do I , without a clean install of windows, turn drive C into both boot
and system partition?

Thanks in advance. :O)

You have to use 3rd party tools to merge the partitions, as no Windows tools
can. Back up the system first.

However, it sounds like your Windows install is now on E, and you want it to
be on C. This probably isn't going to work, as there are an unknown
number (but likely in the thousands) of registry entries, and other
references elsewhere referring to E, and you have to change them all.

You may find it faster, more reliable and less stressful to just bite the
bullet, back up or put in a new drive, and reinstall fresh with the
partitions recreated as you need. If you swap in a new drive, remove the
old one, and use it as the backup source for the fresh install.

HTH
-pk

 

[Andy]

I've got a Win XP x64 installation, and would like some help.

Win installed on drive C (disk 0, boot partition + extended partition,
logical drive). Drive E (disk 0, system partition, primary partition). I
would like to use drive E for other purposes, and need to delete that
parition. Since it's a system partition Windows wont let me.

How do I , without a clean install of windows, turn drive C into both boot
and system partition?

If you want drive C to also be the system partition, you have to
convert it to a primary partition and make it active. The boot files
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini, possibly modified, have to copied to
the C drive.

 

[Lil' Dave]

Per XP's definition of system partition and boot partition, you apparently
have your drive letter designations reversed.

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