Partition question

Fanatic · 7 Mar 2009 at 20:59

Just wondering if gparted (or a similar app) would be able to merge E: and F: partitions, given that they are not contiguous (they are on the same RAID0 array).

Cheers.

Fanatic · 7 Mar 2009 at 21:17

Had a quick look using gparted, it didn't recognise the RAID array, came up as 2 disks both unallocated.

Fanatic · 7 Mar 2009 at 23:03

Because E and F aren't contiguous I can't delete E and then expand F using the unallocated space from E (in disk management). All my programs are on F and I guess if I just copy everything from F to E, then nothing will work as all the registry/shortcuts/paths are pointing to the wrong place.

C, E, F, are on a 2x250GB drive RAID0.
I, E, are on a 1TB drive.
H is on its own.

Fanatic · 9 Mar 2009 at 14:41

E and F are the wrong way round for Windows to be able to do it.

I have read that Partition Magic doesn't work with Vista.

Fanatic · 9 Mar 2009 at 15:01

Might give the renaming thing a go. Though there is 159GB in way over 100,000 files. Could take a while

Fanatic · 9 Mar 2009 at 21:30

I believe so: 0.4.3-2 live CD.

Fanatic · 10 Mar 2009 at 11:44

I think so, I am going to try it. Though it is going to take ages

Fanatic · 10 Mar 2009 at 18:01

Mattf121 said:
You could always change the drive letter on E to Z:, change F: to E: (therefore changing most registry entries for you) then merge Z into E: ...

I don't think changing the drive letters changes the partitions position on the disk, they still wouldn't be contiguous and I wouldn't be able to expand F to include E.