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Unpartition a drive without losing any data?
    #21786590 - 06/10/15 01:25 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

My hard drive is in 2 partitions, I want to recombine them into 1. I don't want to do a bunch of extra work backing up stuff. Is this possible? I'm pretty good with computers by now but partitions always confused me. Last time I tried get rid of the partitioning while doing a full reformat, I couldn't for whatever reason. I could delete the partition but that space was not returned to the first partition. So I've left it. Now I'm struggling for space on the first partition and it's just kind of a pain in the ass to move stuff to other.


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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: Shroomslip]
    #21786653 - 06/10/15 01:47 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

As far as I know, this still isn't possible. Certainly wasn't a few years ago and due to the inherent challenges of combining two file systems, I think it's still faster and safer to back up your data and repartition the drive, then copy everything back.


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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: koraks]
    #21786677 - 06/10/15 01:59 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

That's the problem though. I really have no way to. I have more data than the only other computer could take on. If I was to just buy a new HDD to store it on, I'd just make the new HDD my primary and do a fresh reinstall and then use an enclosure to copy over all the files from the old one.


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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: Shroomslip]
    #21786717 - 06/10/15 02:14 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

That's what I'd do!


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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: koraks]
    #21786816 - 06/10/15 03:03 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Kinda strapped for cash atm, kinda why I was wondering if there was a way to do this without a new HDD or transferring files.

I'm gonna have to at some point. Been a long time since my last clean install and computer just isn't performing as it should be. Have cleaned it the best I can but :shrug: sometimes you just have to start fresh.


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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: Shroomslip]
    #21841061 - 06/22/15 09:39 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Have cleaned it the best I can but :shrug: sometimes you just have to start fresh.




Nothing better than the feeling of a fresh OS install!


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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: Shroomslip]
    #21846225 - 06/23/15 02:15 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

"Partition Wizard" is a program for Windows with a freeware version. Don't think it can merge two partitions but if you had enough space to back up the contents of one partition then you could delete it and expand the other partition to fill the whole drive (preserving the contents of the partition that wasn't deleted).


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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: psi]
    #21846634 - 06/23/15 04:16 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Re: Unpartition a drive without losing any data? [Re: Dave Bowman]
    #21846656 - 06/23/15 04:22 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Synthettek said:
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Have cleaned it the best I can but :shrug: sometimes you just have to start fresh.




Nothing better than the feeling of a fresh OS install!



Except maybe an install that doesn't break.


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