Vista - How can I merge C:\ with another partition?

Hi,

I'm one of those people who thought it would be a cool idea to partition 20GB for Vista out of a 320GB hard drive for "aesthetic" reasons. Now I'm falling back on this idea because my programs are installed ona different drive letter and do not show up on the Program Files. On top of that, if I get a virus or some sort of anoyying malware, formatting the vista partition does NOT make my program files still usable.

So here's my situation, drive C:\ is for Vista, drive E:\ is just Program Files. Is there a way I can merge the two drives without re-installing Vista (chipset drivers, drivers, software, preferences, urrrghhh....)? Without re-installing all the contents of E:\Program Files? Making E:\Program Files\ show up in the Program Files menu?

Thanks in advance,
Mad

MadBull <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
Can't "merge" two partitions. One of 'em has to go.

If you're going to use Vista's Disk Management, it will have to be E.
Obviously, you'll have to reinstall all the programs that are on E.