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    Help with merging partitions.

    Okay so I just reinstalled vista, and the installer apparently chose the partition on its own or I did and wasn't paying attention, but it installed vista on a 15gig partition, which left me with a random 70meg partition from some boot crap, and a 600gig partition.



    The partition (C) with vista installed is now full and I am now unable to install or extract any zips/rars due to this, I tried using Acronis Disk Director Suite to merge the 15gig and 600gig partitions but it freezes and crashes everytime I try, and I'd rather not delete the 600gig partition and extend the C partition because then I lose my stuff and I have to screw with some settings of some programs.

    Anything else I can try to merge the two partitions?

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    u can try other 3rd party software but unfortuanatly you cant otherwise (not that i know of ), but u could shrink the 600gig part. and extend the C: drive

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    Quote Originally Posted by HCSMOKEWEED View Post
    u can try other 3rd party software but unfortuanatly you cant otherwise (not that i know of ), but u could shrink the 600gig part. and extend the C: drive
    I already tried doing that but it wont work because the empty space isn't directly on the right of the C partition

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    OH looks like you are going to have to try a 3rd part software or buy an external hard drive to back up your data

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    Quote Originally Posted by HCSMOKEWEED View Post
    OH looks like you are going to have to try a 3rd part software or buy an external hard drive to back up your data
    Already got the external, the problem is that I've been installing all my programs onto the F drive which is the 600gig partition. And I'm afraid that if I just delete the F drive and extend the C drive and then throw all the programs back onto the C drive that they wont work properly.

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    thats a chance youll have to take unfourntuantly

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    Wellp thats done now. My computer just crashed while I was backin up my F drive, and so the F drive became fubar did not show in computers or anything, so I had to delete it and extend C drive. IDK Wtf made my PC Crash suddenly like that

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    so you lost all yor files ?

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    Naw, luckily I had already backed them all up on my external right before it crashed

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    Re: Help with merging partitions.

    now all is left is to copy your programs ect back over and see if they work but keeping originals on the E-HDD just incase ure pc crashes hehe.

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