Windows partition

**Tyler** · 11-29-2009 11:10 PM

I recently installed Windows 7.
I set aside a small bit of my hard drive to make sure that I could boot it and everything would work okay, because my last Windows install didn't work.

So after I tested it, I formatted my Ubuntu partition to NTFS so I could resize my Windows partition to take up the entire hard drive.

My problem is I know have a C: drive that is completely full, and an E: drive that is barely used. It's a huge pain, having my hard drive split like this for no reason, is there a way to merge them without having to completely reinstall Windows?

**khh** · 12-01-2009 02:00 AM

Assuming both paritions are on the same harddrive, if you've got access to an external harddrive or something like that, you could copy the files from the E: partition to the external harddrive, delete the E: parition, and extend the C: partition to take up all the space. That would erase all the files on the E: parition, while leaving all the files on the C: partition. Then you could just copy the files back from the external drive.

**Tyler** · 12-01-2009 02:04 AM

First off, I don't have an external harddrive ; __ ;

Second, when I formatted my Ubuntu partition, I tried to extend the Windows partition, but all it gave me the option to do was shrink it.

**khh** · 12-01-2009 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by Fableflame

Second, when I formatted my Ubuntu partition, I tried to extend the Windows partition, but all it gave me the option to do was shrink it.

That's because the ubuntu disk was already formatted. What you should have done was to delete the ubuntu partition, and then extend the windows partition. You can only extend it to unallocated space.

Now, one other way you can do it, if you have at least as much free space and taken space on the E: partition, is to shrink it, extend the windows partition, copy the files over from the E partition to the C partition, and the delete the E partition and extend the windows partition to cover all the space. But that will take a lot of time.