How would you un partition a hardrive? ?

Question

I changed my hardrive on my laptop a few months ago and I have finally got round to sorting out my old hardrive which I am now using as an external hardrive (60gb) the only problem is when the hardrive was in my laptop it had a partition and now when I connect the old hardrive to use as a back up it still has the partition. Does anyone know how to merge the partition so I have the 60gb drive back again??????????

Many thanks

Answer 1

Delete both partitions ("the partition" is the second partition.  The one you want to merge it with - the "real drive" is the first partition.)  Create a partition.  Use the entire drive for this partition.  Format it.  You're done.  (It'll take longer to format than to read this - a LOT longer.  Just let it finish.)

D O   N O T   format the internal (usually the C:) drive!

@hp - VERY nice site.  Thanks.

Answer 2

Go to my profile and click the web link. On the website you will be able to find exactly what you are looking for.

Answer 3

Use Norton PartitionMagic 8.0:

http://www.symantec.com/norton/partition...

You can download a free trial!

Answer 4

firstly connect u r ( ide/sata/pata-basic types of hard disks) hard disk drive on board with the required cable...now we go...u r hard disk(external 60 gb) is detected .....in an existing windows xp installation the best to use software for managing partitions is PARTITION MAGIC 8.0 Currently u can download the same from www.torrentz.com/e17f3b30c8e0e7414337b9d...

or

if u want to merge u r partitions with out booting up on xp(or any other) use hiren's boot cd from the following location-

www.fullreleases.biz/NewMembers/downlo...

also www.dl4all.com is handy

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