Combining that info with Partition Magic I was able to clean up the
drive. Thanks to all who responded to my problem.
Steve
At 12:26 PM 10/5/2005, you wrote:
Remove the unused partition with Disk Management.
(Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc)
-----Original Message-----
From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Steve
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to merge partitions?
I did that but I am still left with a drive letter assigned to that
unused partition. PM8 does allow resizing the partition, but when
merging in windows it says " error 4 while executing batch error 4
bad argument/parameter" .
At 11:06 PM 10/4/2005, you wrote:
>I would try something like:
>
>1. Move as much data as possible from smaller partition to larger
partition.
>2. Resize smaller partition to as small as it can be.
>3. Slide one partition to make free space from step (2) adjacent to the
>upper end of the larger partition.
>4. Resize larger partition to use free space made available.
>5. Repeat from step 1 until smaller partition is eliminated.
>
>This will not be fast and will work better if the smaller partition is the
>2nd partition.
>
>It may be easier to remove the drive from the external case and plug it
into
>the computer as an internal drive, so that you can use the PM8 merge
>feature.
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