Merging Partitions into one

hatehereyes

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i have a 80gb hard drive with 3 seperate partitions

1. Vista partition
2. Empty partition
3. XP partition


now what i want to do is merge the empty partition into the XP partition with paragon partition manager but i can't figure out how.

can anyone help me?
 

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System One

  • CPU
    Pentium 4 3.0ghz/ Dual Xeon 2.8ghz 8 cores
    Motherboard
    Intel D915GUX
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 533MHz Memory/4gb DDR2 FB-DIMM
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    ATI Radeon x600 Series/ATI Radeon x2600xt
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    Dual 19" Gateway FPD1965
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    2tb WD
    Velociraptor 300GB WD
    40gb
    Mac Pro - 500gb, 2x 320gb, 150gb
Hi,
The Merge Partitions Wizard enables to consolidate the disk space, which originally belongs to two adjacent partitions, into a single, larger partition. The order, in which two partitions have been chosen, is important since the contents of the second selected partition will be placed in the folder of the first selected partition.

So, if you have 3 partitions and that the partition you want to delete is the one in the middle, there should not be any problem as it is adjacent to the 2 others.
Resize your empty partition to 0 and specify the size of free space before or after the partition depending which other partition you want to increase the size, then you ask to increase the partition to the XP one, you delete your empty partition and apply the changes.
 

My Computer

You can also do that with Vista Disk Management, just do a good defrag, and then you can merge the XP and the empty partition into one.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5B-E Plus
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    4GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR2-667
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS EN8800GT 512
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
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    Packard Bell Maestro 190W
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    1440x900 @ 75Hz
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    WesternDigital 200GB 7200RPM + Iomega Desktop HD 360GB 7200RPM
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    Xilence Power 600W Gaming Edition
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    Coolermaster Centurion 534 Black
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    Standard Coolermaster Case Fans + Standard Intel CPU Fan.
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    Logitech G15 V1
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    Razer Copperhead Tempest Blue
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