[geeks] Quick NTFS Partition Q...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
> Hey gang,
> 
> 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?
> 

I do not think you need to do either.  You can mount a separate volume
under an empty folder name, and it will all appear as one unified path.

e.g. mount D:/ under C:\dfiles and C will look like the only disk on the
system.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889

--Patrick