Deleting Partitions

Zorba

Hi all

I've a 500 gb hard drive with 2 partitions on it, roughly spilt 250 gb on each.

Is it possible with windows 7 to join the partitions together so i've 500 gb without having to format the hard drive and delete partitions ?

AFAIK with older versions of windows u can delete partitions but until u format the drive windows won't recognise the extra space.

Thanks in advance

TouchingVirus

Yes, this is possible. If windows is on Partition 1, then you can remove Partition 2 and extend Partition 1 to the end of the disk, resulting in a 500GB single-parition drive with no reinstall.

Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc

Select Partition 2 - Right Click, Delete

Select Partition 1 - Right Click, Extend


Google yourself a guide and follow it

Zorba

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Yes, this is possible. If windows is on Partition 1, then you can remove Partition 2 and extend Partition 1 to the end of the disk, resulting in a 500GB single-parition drive with no reinstall.

Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc

Select Partition 2 - Right Click, Delete

Select Partition 1 - Right Click, Extend


Google yourself a guide and follow it

Beautiful, thanks very much for the quick reply, worked like a dream

TouchingVirus

You're welcome, glad you got it sorted.