Changing Disk Partitions

[PJ]

I have a 975XBX2 running Vista Ultimate 32 with 4 hard drives configured as two RAID 0 drives. Drive 0, the boot drive is partitioned (as C and D). I would like some ideas about how to remove the partition on Drive 0 so that the entire drive is usable as the boot drive (C).

[Alathald]

First, backup all of the data on one of the partitions to a secondary partition (probably best if you backed up all the data on the drive actually). Then using disk partitioning software (say, gparted) delete that partition. Finally, using said partitioning software, resize the other partition so that it takes up the entire drive.

[DaddyRabbit]

You should be able to do this with Vista's disk management...

http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/ ... dows-vista

These are a little better I think:

http://vistahelp.blogspot.com/2007/02/r ... -disk.html

MAKE SURE that you backup before you try anything! Also I'm not sure how RAID will affect anything (I don't think it will but I'm no expert).

Steps:

1) BACKUP EVERYTHING!!!

2) Copy the contents of the "D:" partition to a second volume.

3) Delete the "D:" partition in the disk management MMC

4) using the above linked examples "Extend" the "C:" partition to take up the remaining adjacent free space.

I just tested this on a second drive in my system and it seemed to work fine but note that I don't RAID and it was an empty drive so I couldn't test the "no data loss" claim but I think it will work fine.