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Old September 13th, 2009, 04:48 PM
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How to delete partitions
Ive just downgraded from Vista to XP.

I would like to know how to delete partitions.



Local disk I: has all my xp installation on with System C: and reovery H:

Has all the vista restore crap.

So I would like to make I: drive to be C: drive like any other normal pc

Hope someone out there can help
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Old September 14th, 2009, 08:27 AM
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The easy way. Is to get 'Acronis True Image' or a freeware equivalent. With Acronis you disconect all but 1 removable then use Acronis to back up 'C' drive. Then boot up using Acronis CD and restore 'C' on the 'C-H' HD telling it to use the entire HD.
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Old September 14th, 2009, 10:34 AM
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There is a free version of Partition Magic 7 available is is not supposed to work on large drives but it works on my 160Gb drive. With Partition Magic drives can be resized, amalgamated, created or deleted.
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Old September 16th, 2009, 07:34 AM
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Good thinking Ned.
Just use Partition Magic to change drive letters. But. Also make sure that you set you prime drives right.
And. Do a backup anyway. Just in case.
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Old September 16th, 2009, 09:26 PM
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I have downloaded this but I haven't had occasion to use it yet. It seems similar to Partition Magic (but cheaper).......
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-...n-manager.html

mickzer.
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Old September 17th, 2009, 05:34 AM
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Well, so far. In freeware partition managers the best one for me has been EASUS. If I didn't already own a shop bought partition Magic v8 I think I would use EASUS.
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