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Resolved HDD parttions

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by rc17, 2014/01/05.

  1. 2014/01/05
    rc17

    rc17 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    :confused: I cloned the HDD and it now shows the following:E drive letter, 31mb FAT: 227G NTFS: 5.4G FAT32: G drive letter 232G NTFS healthy. They are in that order and it won't let me add the G partition to the E partition. Anyone can say how to do ? Disk Manager has option of change drive letter and path, format( it already is)mark as active, delete,then the usual help,explore,open. Was going to try diskpart in CommandPrompt. Cannot do as partitions aren't next to each other and contiguos( their spelling LOL). Any suggestions? Thanks everyone:)
     
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  2. 2014/01/06
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    SpywareDr SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Like it said, in order to merge two partitions they must be next to each other.

    So in order to merge E: to G:, you would first have to merge E: and F:, then merge G:
     
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  4. 2014/01/07
    rc17

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    There is no F partition. I can change G to F and then merge? The only partition between them is the 5.4g FAT32 partition. It is deemed an unknown partition tho. So i am hesitant to mess with it LOL
     
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  5. 2014/01/08
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    No, both partitions must be physically adjacent to each other. Changing the drive letter doesn't move the partition.
     
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  6. 2014/01/08
    SpywareDr

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    Correct. Make the unknown partition between the two known, merge it with one or the other and then merge the remaining two.
     
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  7. 2014/01/08
    rc17

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    How can make the partition known and not mess it up when it join the E partition? This is XP Pro OS and i thought the FAT32 was needed by it to operate. If i mess this up i can't undo LOL I will try to make the unknown partition the F partition and merge it to E partition and then merge F partition if all goes well. Then see if the computer still operates LOL Will report back after its done.
     
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  8. 2014/01/09
    SpywareDr

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    Clone the drive before attempting any alterations.
     
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  9. 2014/01/10
    rc17

    rc17 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Cloned the drive and then put it in computer. Couldn't get disk manager to open as the shortcut for it was 0 bytes:( I did something very bad to computer. I will have to find out the "run" command to open disk manager now. Will close this thread and open the disk manager somehow. Will restart a new thread if successful at any of this LOL Thanks for the help:)
     
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  10. 2014/01/10
    SpywareDr

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    diskmgmt.msc
     
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  11. 2014/01/10
    rc17

    rc17 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    That worked great:) I downloaded a partition manager called Mini Partition Wizard also, just in case. LOL Now to got thru it all again and see what happens. Thanks again for the help:)
     
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  12. 2014/01/11
    SpywareDr

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    You're welcome.
     
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