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From: bretsharon on 27 Jun 2010 15:51
on XP professional service pack 3, I have a blank external harddrive 1.01TB,
which I have formatted. I would like to have just 2 partitions rather than
the 3 I have, one of which is the boot partition I suspect. How do I combine
the other two partitions into 1?
From: philo on 27 Jun 2010 16:58
On 06/27/2010 02:51 PM, bretsharon wrote:
> on XP professional service pack 3, I have a blank external harddrive 1.01TB,
> which I have formatted. I would like to have just 2 partitions rather than
> the 3 I have, one of which is the boot partition I suspect. How do I combine
> the other two partitions into 1?




Since there is no data on it to lose

simply go into disk management and delete it

then create two partitions



http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000
From: smlunatick on 28 Jun 2010 09:38
On Jun 27, 8:51 pm, bretsharon <bretsha...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> on XP professional service pack 3, I have a blank external harddrive 1.01TB,
> which I have formatted.  I would like to have just 2 partitions rather than
> the 3 I have, one of which is the boot partition I suspect.  How do I combine
> the other two partitions into 1?

Please note that:

1) USB and Firewire external hard drives can not normally be used to
boot Windows XP. Therefore, there might be a Windows boot partition.

2) Windows XP can not permit your to merge partitions. You need to
locate a third party utility to do this. Or, since you stated that
this hard drive is "blank" please follow "philo's" suggestion.
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