Good Afternoon, I have a sony Vaio, but i have an 80GB Hard driver,
there is about 7GB Paritioned off to another driver letter for restore
purposes, i already made a restore DVD, and have everything backup so i
have no need for this parition on my hard drive...is there any way i
can get rid of that parition and combine it with my orginal parition so
I have those 7GB Back?

Write back
Thanks
Carmine

The only way is with Partition Magic. It usually works (about 90%+ of
the time ... actually I've never had it fail), but be sure that you are
backed up, because every so often, something goes wrong.

Note that if this will change drive letters, you are screwed and will
have to reinstall. The partition combination may work, but if the drive
letters change, the OS may become unuseable, even though the
now-consolidated drive is fine.


Carmine782 wrote:

> Good Afternoon, I have a sony Vaio, but i have an 80GB Hard driver,
> there is about 7GB Paritioned off to another driver letter for restore
> purposes, i already made a restore DVD, and have everything backup so i
> have no need for this parition on my hard drive...is there any way i
> can get rid of that parition and combine it with my orginal parition so
> I have those 7GB Back?
>
> Write back
> Thanks
> Carmine
>

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I don't recommend doing this.

Ben Pazolli

"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4543C5E1.9050805@neo.rr.com...
> The only way is with Partition Magic. It usually works (about 90%+ of the
> time ... actually I've never had it fail), but be sure that you are backed
> up, because every so often, something goes wrong.
>
> Note that if this will change drive letters, you are screwed and will have
> to reinstall. The partition combination may work, but if the drive
> letters change, the OS may become unuseable, even though the
> now-consolidated drive is fine.
>

If you just delete the unwanted partition and expand the wanted one into the
space, the drive letter should remain intact (I assume Windows XP here).