Hi the quickest route back up what you want to keep to a usb device or disc then start from scratch or this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/117173-35-delete-merge-partitions-disk-manager is the other option
Want to go from dual boot to single and repartition the old boot drive
About a year ago I built myself a new PC, quad core, 8 gigs of ram, terabyte hard drive, etc. The problem is I was running XP home, so over half my ram could not be used. I recently got a copy of XP Pro x64 and decided to duel boot to ensure I could find all the drivers and make sure it's works fine. I repartitioned my HDD (only got the one) so I now have three separate partitions: /c which XP home is on and is stuck with 127 GB, /e which is my storage partition, and /i which has 5gb for XP pro. So far everything is working nicely.
What I want to do now is to remove XP home and stick with XP Pro x64. I would like to combine the /c and /i drives to a single partition and have XP Pro running from there. Would I need to uninstall XP home from the c drive or can I know just send everything there to the recycle bin?
I was thinking of using my windows boot cd to delete all the partitions minus my big storage drive and create a new one from the ashes. I would then just reinstalling XP on the newly created partition. I figure that way would be much faster than to re-size the partitions as it took over 5 hours to move 5gbs using Partition Magic.
What would be the best method to achieve what I want?
What I want to do now is to remove XP home and stick with XP Pro x64. I would like to combine the /c and /i drives to a single partition and have XP Pro running from there. Would I need to uninstall XP home from the c drive or can I know just send everything there to the recycle bin?
I was thinking of using my windows boot cd to delete all the partitions minus my big storage drive and create a new one from the ashes. I would then just reinstalling XP on the newly created partition. I figure that way would be much faster than to re-size the partitions as it took over 5 hours to move 5gbs using Partition Magic.
What would be the best method to achieve what I want?
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Hmmm, well I can't really put my storage partition on thumb drive or disks as I have over 500 gb of data.
As for the second option, wouldn't my way work just as well, only faster? Anything I want to keep is on the storage partition so it won't be affected. Deleting the other two should wipe the system data on both, right? Then I just form a single partition with the unpartitioned space and reinstall XP.
As for the second option, wouldn't my way work just as well, only faster? Anything I want to keep is on the storage partition so it won't be affected. Deleting the other two should wipe the system data on both, right? Then I just form a single partition with the unpartitioned space and reinstall XP.
Alright. So I inserted my windows cd, deleted the partitions that held all my system file (but not any of my precious data, ie lolcat pics), create a new partition, installed XP x64 and everything is great! Glad I duel booted to begin with since most driver cds didn't work in 64 bit and I had to download them all. Finally I can now enjoy all of my ram rather than just 3/8th.
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