   | Member with 56 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: California Experience: Advanced | | Getting rid of extra partition Hey guys,
I was trying to make my system dual-boot, with Win98 (which I've used forever), and Linux (which I just wanted to install). I got as far as making the two partitions, and then decided I'd rather just have two hardrives, one with Win98 and one with Linux. I currently have two partitions. C:\ has 26 GB and D:\ has 11 GB. something went wrong with the partitioning process, and I think I might have just needed to format the second partition, but I didn't want to... Yada yada, my question is this: How do I get rid of the second partition (D:\) and just have a 37GB C:\ drive again?
Thanks,
~Alker |  | Distinguished Member with 2,051 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alberta, Canada Experience: Windows: Decent. Unix/Linux: Advanced +1 | | YOu may have to puchase a third party partitioning product, because i have never heard of any reliable non commercial partioning utility.
PartitionMagic is good. | | | Member with 56 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: California Experience: Advanced | | Awesome possum, thank you much, will do.
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~Alker | | | Distinguished Member with 2,051 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alberta, Canada Experience: Windows: Decent. Unix/Linux: Advanced +1 | | I'd be very interested if you did however find a really good partitioning utility that is free | | | Member with 56 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: California Experience: Advanced | | So far all that I've found is a shareware program HERE, but I haven't looked very hard... I'm going to try the program right now, I'll post how well it worked for me when I'm done. Thanks again!
~Alker | | | Member with 56 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: California Experience: Advanced | | Aaahhhhhh, what do I do? I want to format a partition on my hard drive, because I'm not going to get my second hard drive for a while.. this'll just be temp. I have Redhat Linux, and I was wondering how to format this partition. My choices are:
FAT32
NTFS
Linux Ext2
Linux Ext3
BTW, I'm using PartitionMagic.
Thank you,
~Alker |  | Distinguished Member with 14,988 posts. | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave Experience: IIAHYAYCESA,YAADA! | | Well if you are going to be putting linux on the second partition you would use Ext2 or 3. But you dont need to use that third party partitioning tool to do that. You can do that during the linux install. | | | Distinguished Member with 14,988 posts. | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave Experience: IIAHYAYCESA,YAADA! | | Quote: Originally posted by Whiteskin:
YOu may have to puchase a third party partitioning product, because i have never heard of any reliable non commercial partioning utility.
PartitionMagic is good. | I like PartitionMagic but I thought somebody said they have had success with Ranish Partition Manager. |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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