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Okay, I have three physical hard drives. The first on is 80GB , the second one is 200 GB and the third is 250 GB. The third drive is a SATA drive while the other first and second ones are IDE. They are all formatted as NTFS.

I just purchased a new 500 GB SATA drive and would like to eliminate the other three drives or at least two of the other three.

I'd like to avoid completely rebuilding my computer if possible. The original SATA drive contains my OS, which is Windows XP SP2. The 200 GB IDE drive contains all sorts of files (e.g. my iTunes library, personal data files, and some actual program files). The 80 GB IDE drive contains mostly program files.

The 80 GB drive contains only about 7 GB of data, the 200 GB drive only contains about 60 GB of data and the 250 GB SATA drive only contains about 65 GB of data. So none of the drive are anywhere near full.

I have the following full programs:
- Partition Magic 8
- Acronis Disk Director
- Acronis Migrate Easy, and
- Acronis True Image Home.

What would be the easiest, safest and best way to merge the drives into one without have to completely reload all the programs? I'd like to try and keep all my programs happy and not have them balk at the change in file location or drive letter.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can provide.