Here’s the deal:
I have: 2 partitions:
I want: 1 partition:
The question is, is it possible to merge them without formating the drive?
As you can probably figure, I am not really familiar with the partition management software.
I’ve certainly never heard of anything that can do this.
Then format C:\ it is! 8)
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If you have enough space on C: to move all the D: stuff to your C:, move it, then delete the D: partition, then extend your C:
If not, you’d have to backup your D: stuff
But either way, you shouldn’t have to format your C: partition.
Windows 7 handles shrinking and expanding quite easily, but with windows XP, you might need to download something like PartitionMagic.
On the other hand, if you have nothing particular that you wish to keep, a format once in a while can’t do any wrong 
Capacity: 9.99Gb
When I get my new HDD in a few days I’ll do that
Yeah, but I already reinstalled it (fresh) about 2 months ago, so…
One last question:
When I plug in the new HDD (SATA) it will be assigned a new drive letter.
After backing up my D:\ and expanding C:\ will I be able to make the new drive D:\ ?
Why would you want to do this? Keep your system partition as small as it can be, small partitions run faster.
I’m not sure, but i think Gparted can do that. It could be easily done with Vista/7 though :retard:
Sadly, I can’t get Win7 to work on mah PC (long story).
As for the partitions, I took wheybag’s word for it at face value (or is it avatar value?) and left my 10Gb system partition intact. Moved all my apps and games from D :\ to the new HDD and swapped D :\ and E:\ drive letters :retard:
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