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    merging partitions

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Spare Tire, Aug 16, 2005.

  1. Spare Tire

    Spare Tire Notebook Evangelist

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    I have an old laptop with an old hdd with some bad blocks. I've used Ranish Partition Manager to scan for the bad blocks and went ahead partitionning around their cylinders. Now i have 10 drive letters showing up and it's kind of messy.
    I want to merge these small islands of good data together. The partitions are not physically continuous. How do i do it? I'm running win98se. And what's this whole RAID-linear thing?
     
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    You need two hard drives for Raid which I don't think your laptop is gonna have. Partition Magic will allow you to merge the partitions.
     
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    Because partition magic was not expecting non-continuous start and end of partitions, it reports a partition table error. I would guess that their merge partition would in fact move the partitions physically together before merging, which is unacceptable since i have left out the corrupt spaces in between. If they move it, they'll screw up the hdd.
     
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    that sure sounds like a lot of trouble. maybe it's time to backup the data you want and just buy a new HD.
     
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    Well, i got this machine for free. Last user said it was broken, i got it running so i'm at least happy for that. Guess i'll have to do with ten drive letters.
     
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    if u got it free, then i'd def recommend just getting a new HD and popping it in there. you can prolly pick up a 40GB / 5400RPM drive for under 75 bucks. then when u finally lay this notebook to rest, you can take the drive out, put it in a sleeve and use it as an external drive.
     
    drumfu, Aug 17, 2005
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