Partition question

[Juanra]

Hello, I have a Sony Vaio with a partitioned hard drive. One partition is about 15GB's, includes all of the OS files, and has only about half a gigabyte in empty space. The other partition has random data, measures about 127GB's, and has around 100GB's in empty space. Is there any way I can merge the partitions into one large volume without losing dada? Or should I backup everything in the second partiton before deleting it? Thanks for your help.

 

[red1776]

Hi Juanra, you will have to back up anything you want to keep, it goes away when you return that partition to the rest of the drive.

 

[DelJo63]

Partition Magic is a 3rd party tool to split/merge partitions -- I've had great success with it (ie no loss of data)

 

[Punkid]

with partition magic u might also be able to transfer the free soace from another partition to your system partition

 

[ravisunny2]

Why do you want to merge the two partitions ?

Resizing the partitions should create the extra space you need on the system partition.

You won't lose any data on resizing.

A free software (that I have used often) is GParted .

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4782-gparted.html