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    Merging Partitions on m1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by dangallegos, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. dangallegos

    dangallegos Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have done a clean install and I still have the space from the recovery partition, and Windows will not allow me to merge it with my main OS partition for some reason :confused:

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    I have formatted and reformatted the 10.0GB partition to NTFS and FAT32 and the option to merge is always grayed out.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    EDIT: Problem Resolved see my last post
     
    dangallegos, Jul 31, 2008
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  2. msankadi

    msankadi Notebook Consultant

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    I too am facing the same problem have searched all over google and NBR, to no avail. I guess nobody knows the solution

    MnVn
     
    msankadi, Jul 31, 2008
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    xboxgon Notebook Guru

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    only way is to format the hd all the way.
     
    xboxgon, Jul 31, 2008
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  4. Koer

    Koer Notebook Deity

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    im not sure how its done in vista, but you have to format all the HD to show up as Unallocated ( meaning you erase everything on the HD), ( if it doesn't self merge into one "partition" then merge it yourself) and then format it all to NTFS, then you should have a single partition.
     
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  5. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    right click on "MY COMPUTER"
    click on MANAGE

    there shoudl be a link on the left to "DISK MANAGEMENT" or something

    u'll see your hard disc partitioned into whatever parts you have

    click on the recovery partition, click erase....the recovery partition should now be unallocated

    then click on your main OS partition, click extend..... think it should work
     
    paper_wastage, Jul 31, 2008
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    I believe you can only merge HD parts that are adjacent to each other. Do you have partitions between them?
     
    Entropic, Jul 31, 2008
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  7. dangallegos

    dangallegos Notebook Enthusiast

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    The recovery partition is already unallocated. Would a program like Gparted work?

    Look at the picture I posted and they are adjacent to each other.
     
    dangallegos, Jul 31, 2008
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    dangallegos Notebook Enthusiast

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    The recovery partition is already unallocated. Would a program like Gparted work?

    Look at the picture I posted and they are adjacent to each other.
     
    dangallegos, Jul 31, 2008
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    I am downloading Gparted and I will post an update once I try it
     
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    dangallegos, Jul 31, 2008
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