Partition magic

[casper03]

i have posted this in other forum but no replies:


i have a 30gig c drive which i split into two partitons.
with xp on the front end using 9 gig as i wasnt sure it
was going to be ok on my system.
I also have me on back end of c drive 20gig.

is there a way to delete the me partition and allocate the whole drive to xp without losing my data on the xp side as this
os has a perfect install with everything running perfectly.

i partitioned the drive using partition magic.

 

[jbcalg]

haven't used PM for a while, but i think the data in the source drive ( c: ) is ok when you add back the split area from d: (20Gb)
-you lose everything on d: tho

pretty sure it's covered in the help section

a ghost or other drive image backup on CD would be a comfort tho

 

[casper03]

i dont think i explained it properly:

both partitions are on c drive and i have installed boot magic to choose which os i boot into so the partitions are both on the same drive letter which is C does this make any difference?

i really need to get rid of the me on the back end as there is nothing i can do with the trojan that is on it.
and my XP is working fine

 

[jbcalg]

oops, haven't done dual boot
assumed the partitions had different drive letters

still suggest the help files, PM's website has some useful info tho

new info re: trojan on the ME boot? - you've probably done it, but you'd want to clean that up before moving anything into your XP OS or changing partitions

sorry

 

[angel]

What is the order of the OS installations and exactly how did you do them?

 

[angel]

On a different note, please do not post your question more than once. This violates the Forum Rules. It can become very messy. If you do not receive a response to your post, you can request that it be moved to a different forum or reply to it to bump it back up to the top.

 

[casper03]

i have XP on the front end at 9 gig as i wasnt sure how it would run with my hardware and on the back end i have ME on 20 gig

i had me to begin with then split the drive into two:i have included text file with all partition info for you

 

[casper03]

ok sorry about that :
and thanks

 

[angel]

You should be able to just uninstall PM, remove the second partition and and resize the first one.

(If you get XP's boot menu when you uninstall BootMagic, post back - easy enough to fix.)

 

[casper03]

but if i uninstall PM how do i resize the the xp side to use whole drive

 

[angel]

I'm sorry, I meant to say uninstall BootMagic and then use PM to resize the partition.

 

[casper03]

thanks again