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De-partitioning a hard drive

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De-partitioning a hard drive

Oct 13th, 2004

I got a laptop today, but it came with the hard drive partitioned in two. Is there a way to "de-partition" them without running Setup? I'm using Win XP Pro SP1, by the way.

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Re: De-partitioning a hard drive

Oct 13th, 2004

Why do you want to take that partition out. What size is the drive and what is the break down. The partition is there to access files faster. But if you dont want that partition magic will do what you want.

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Re: De-partitioning a hard drive

Oct 13th, 2004

Any decent partition management program will do the job. Only problem is, any decent partition management program is a commercial one. There's no decent 'freebie' that I've ever heard of!

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Re: De-partitioning a hard drive

Oct 13th, 2004

http://www.ranish.com/part/

A free partitioning tool but you need to know what you are doing to use it because it is all manual entries and no nice graphical interface like the commercial ones.

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