Merging Partitions.

[Sneamia]

Ok.
Here's my situation. I have a C:, with 19 GB of space, with my Windows
XP OS on it. I have a D: on the same physical hard drive, which I was
going to reinstall Linux on, but decided against it. I now use it as
extra space, but I would like to merge these two partitions.

I already tried to merge these two with a boot-time merge using Paragon
Partition Manager, but it screwed up my partition table and I nearly
lost everything on my pc (because I was too lazy to back everything
up). I found out that that the number of sections per cluster was
different, which probably screwed it up. Is it possible, with the
proper formatting, to merge these two partitions without screwing
anything up?

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

 

[steam3801]

Ok.
Here's my situation. I have a C:, with 19 GB of space, with my Windows
XP OS on it. I have a D: on the same physical hard drive, which I was
going to reinstall Linux on, but decided against it. I now use it as
extra space, but I would like to merge these two partitions.

I already tried to merge these two with a boot-time merge using Paragon
Partition Manager, but it screwed up my partition table and I nearly
lost everything on my pc (because I was too lazy to back everything
up). I found out that that the number of sections per cluster was
different, which probably screwed it up. Is it possible, with the
proper formatting, to merge these two partitions without screwing
anything up?

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

Possible that your version of Paragon did not support NTFS formatting?

Option 1
Backup all data and do a (clean) reinstall. During the setup rocess
WinXP will ask you about partitioning options.

Option2
Purchase a new up-to-date version of a 3rd party partition manager -
reco : Acronis

Option2
If you can get a Win98SE boot disk, use the old fashion DOS method of
partition management, wipe HDD, and do an absolute clean install.

 

[Sneamia]

My version of Partition Manager is 7.0, the most recent one, so I doubt
that was the factor that screwed it up. I was only wondering if it was
possible to merge these two partitions without needing to reformat or
reinstall Windows, because it would take about 18 CDs to back
everything up on my hard drive.

I reformatted my D:, and now both numbers of sections per cluster and
both versions of NTFS are the same. If I merge these with Partition
Manager, technically, should it work?

 

[Sneamia]

Would it work better if I deleted the second partition, and simply
extended my current partition? It's only my c drive where I have
important files that I am reluctant to delete, reformat, reinstall.

 

[Sigmundur Jonsson]

Would it work better if I deleted the second partition, and simply
extended my current partition? It's only my c drive where I have
important files that I am reluctant to delete, reformat, reinstall.

Well I use Partition Manager 8.0 and it can do anything i want except
resizing Linux partitions. I can move, resize, split and EVERYTHING xD

 

[Sneamia]

Nevermind, I got it.
All I had to do was delete my second partition and extend the first
one.
rofl