Partition Joining

[KHaled]

Greetings all..

I need tto join two (20gig) partitions, and prefer not to
have the contents erased.. Any recommendations ?

Environment: Win2K SP4(updated)

TIA..

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KHaled

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[Craig]

Greetings all..

I need tto join two (20gig) partitions, and prefer not to
have the contents erased.. Any recommendations ?

Environment: Win2K SP4(updated)

TIA..

I haven't used these tools, but have read very good things about them:

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

let us know how it turns out.

-Craig

 

[badgolferman]

I haven't used these tools, but have read very good things about them:

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

let us know how it turns out.

-Craig

I didn't see any tool on that list that would join partitions. I'd be
interested in a tool other than Partition Magic that is freeware also.

 

[Chris Lee]

I didn't see any tool on that list that would join partitions. I'd
be
interested in a tool other than Partition Magic that is freeware
also.

I wouldn't bother. Just backup,delete the old partitions,repartion the drive and
restore
from you backups. Otherwise you're just asking for trouble down the road..

 

[bambam]

Greetings all..

I need tto join two (20gig) partitions, and prefer not to
have the contents erased.. Any recommendations ?

Environment: Win2K SP4(updated)

Are both partitions NTFS? How much data is on the partitions?
Do you have a Knoppix CD? QTParted is on the CD, well worth a look-

http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

But as Chris has pretty much already said, before you do any mucking around
with your partitions you want to backup everything. So now that you have
backups, you could delete the second partition, resize the first, then copy
back the backup of the second to the resized first. Easy.

 

[KHaled]

Are both partitions NTFS? How much data is on the
partitions? Do you have a Knoppix CD? QTParted is on the
CD, well worth a look-

Both are FAT32

http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

But as Chris has pretty much already said, before you do
any mucking around with your partitions you want to backup
everything. So now that you have backups, you could delete
the second partition, resize the first, then copy back the
backup of the second to the resized first. Easy.

Yes, I have come to that conclusion.. The software I have
come across talks about 2Gig partitions, and what I have is
20Gig.. I have recently bought a 160Gig HD, so I will make a
40Gig part. and copy what I need to that, then using Windows
I will delete / recreate the partions as I need.

The new drive will eventually be used for archiving and for
Linux..

Thanks for your response..

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[bambam]

The new drive will eventually be used for archiving and for
Linux..

I made 5*10GB partitions and a 500MB linux swap on my latest hard drive,
just for playing with linux.

Thanks for your response..

YW.