[geeks] Quick NTFS Partition Q...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
> My dad has a Sony Vaio PC running XP that somehow came with two NTFS
> partitions. A 20G C: and a 100G D: drive. Of course, C: is full, D: is
> "nearly" empty but has some stuff on it.
>
> Ideally I want to merge these partitions magically/seemlessly so it
> looks like 1 big disk with no data loss. Is this something that gpartd
> or qpartd can do these days? Or am I stuck wiping the D drive and then
> growing the C drive with the before-mentioned tools?

You are stuck doing the latter.  Back up D: and wipe it, and grow C:.

Peace...  Sridhar