[ShadowStrike]

Hi everyone.

I recently formatted my computer and decided to partition my hard drive 3 separate ways.

I have a primary partition ( C: ) with 30GB that holds Windows Vista (Running home premium).

I also have a logical drive ( G: ) with 80GB that is holding all of my programs

Now I also have two other drives, a primary partition and logical drive (They have no files on whatsoever).

I want to merge these two to hold my documents (music, video, etc).
Only problem is disk management won't let me do it and Partition magic would not work with vista when I installed it.

Does anyone know of a way to merge my primary partition and logical drive (they can be formatted)

I have already tried formatting one volume and extending the other.

Thanks in advance.

[Elvandil]

Delete the logical drive and extended partition and then expand the system partition to fill the space.

[ShadowStrike]

This did not work. I deleted both but it wont let me expand the system partition. I do want to have a third partition though. I am using Computer Management... is there any third party programs that are compatible with vista home premium that I can download?

[Elvandil]

Do the job from CD instead of Windows.

Partitioning Tools-->

Free:

Dr.Freeware Boot CD (also has file recovery, disk imaging and cloning)
EASEUS Partition Master (Vista-compatible)
Paragon Partition Manager 8.5-- PPM Special Edition serial and free registration
CloneZilla GParted LiveCD (Complete partitioning and drive imaging/restoration tools)
SystemRescueCD
Gparted LiveCD
Parted Magic
Vista Recovery Disk (Shrink, expand, create, delete partitions)
XP Recovery Console CD image (Create and delete partitions with diskpart.exe)


Commercial:

O&O Partition Manager 2 (Vista-compatible)
Paragon Partition Manager
Paragon Hard Disk Manager
Terabyte BootIt NG
Acronis Disk Director
V-Com (Avanquest) Partition Commander
EASEUS Partition Manager

[ShadowStrike]

EASEUS worked perfectly thanks!

[Elvandil]

A lot of good freeware out there.

You're welcome and thanks for following up.