doug Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Am running XPPro and have been doing a bit of sorting out to enable me to streamline my back-ups. I am now at the stage where I have a drive with 2 partitions, temporarily sitting in an external USB caddy. I want to re-format this drive as a single partition so I can then use it as a 40 GB drive for my OS. I mentioned in another thread I now have an enormous 320 GB data disk. The present primary drive has a total of 80 GB that I will be using for my back-ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Do you have any partitioning software, such as PartitionMagic? I don't know what Windows Disk Manager can do, but basically you have to delete one partition, then resize the other one to the full HD size.P.S. the work is faster if you first defragment the partition you want to keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 No partitioning software Pat just what's available in XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 If I have understood you doug you have a n external drive with two partitions that you want to delete and format.Click start/right clck My Computer/click Manage/click Disk Management/right click the second partition and click Delete/ then do the same to the first partition.Then right click the single partition and select format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Giving that a go now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Didn't work properly. Deleted second partition and formated first but the unformatted second partition is still there and is most of the space! Help!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 I think Alan2273 said to delete both partitions and then format Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 I'll have another go then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Well it worked that time! Wonder why it didn't the first 3 times I tried? Thought I had followed the instructions precisely having copied them down to be safe. Anyway thanks to you both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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