Removing a partition on the hard disk

My hard disk is partitioned into C and D. How can I remove the partition so I only have C? D is almost empty at the moment.

Or is this impossible without problems?

Help would be appreciated

David

 

The only way I know of to remove the partition on the fly would be to first empty that partition, then use a program like Partition Magic to delete the current drive D and then stretch the C partition to fill the space.

 

Thanks Alex. I've been in touch with Partition Magic and they say for Windows 98 and a Pentium system, version 7 is fine

 

Any version of PM works fine with Win98 as long as you do not run it from within Windows which is not a good idea anyway.

It requires the system to swiched into and out of DOS and if anything goes wrong it can spell problems.

It is best to install PM, make the Floppys and then PM can be un-installed and the floppys used thereafter.

BillyBob

 

I have a question that is not exactly "on topic" but is related and since Alex and Bob are both on the thread I know I will get a well thought out answer. My kid has a Vaio laptop with a 20(?)GB HD partitioned as C: 8+GB Fat 32 and D:11+GB NFTS. OS is XP home SONY OEM (with no disk!!of course.) C has the OS and is almost full because of all the extraneous programs they package with these systems. Why, with XP, is the OS on Fat 32? That has me baffled. Having two file systems seems like an invitation to problems. Sony support does not have a good explanation beyond "legacy devices." This seems to beg the question. I Would like to have 1 partition. (I know Bob and I see this differently.) At least, why have Fat AND NFTS? And, why XP on the FAT32?. Can I repartition this sucker? I would really like to fdisk the **** thing and reinstall 98SE! but don't know what kind of stuff Sony has hidden away that I would ***** up. Anti virus and Windows updates come to mind. All these progs are oem and all you get is a "recovery disk." Any thoughts welcome.

 

SONY OEM

Those two words take me right out of the ballgame. My Daughter has one and I HATED IT. She had a few problems and being 1400 miles away I just had to sit back and say " ME No touch "

And I agree there was more USELSS junk on that thing that was ALWAYS phoning Home. And 75% of it will never be used.

As to partitioning. I have a 40gig with 3.6gig for the OS. Five other partitions. I like to keep things separated. I have 1 Golf game on one partition. Another Golf game on another. If I don't keep them separated they seem to get crossed up.

MY Swap file and smaller games are on another.

But, partitions or no partitions is a personal choice. I just don't like just one. I just lost my C: drive the other day ( due to my stupidity ) but all I lost was the OS, AV and Internet Security. Had to re-install a few thing but that was it. But MUCH to my surprise most everything ran with out re-installing. Even a couple of my older DOS games worked fine. ( after I got the sound card re-installed )

Oh BTW. I kind of agree with going back to 98 SE.

BillyBob