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    Portable Hard Drive Partition issue

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by J&SinKTO, Mar 4, 2010.

  1. J&SinKTO

    J&SinKTO Notebook Deity

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    Have my old mechanical hard drive available now for storage (after replaced it with a SSD). Had Windows 7 installed. Previously was two main partitions (easy to merge back to one large one. But can't make the 100MB partition merge or go away. Causes it to hang and makes explorer crash when plug it in.
    Any insights on how to remove/merge the 100MB into the larger partition? - disk management (Win7) won't let me extend it.
    Any other options/ideas?
     
    J&SinKTO, Mar 4, 2010
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    Not worth the bother. Explorer can handle 2 partitions fine; something else is crashing it... either something that's on the partition, or something unrelated.

    If you don't care about anything on the drive, then repartition it from scratch. Otherwise, just format the partition and ignore it or use it to store some stuff. Alternatively, you can just delete the partition and not recreate it... then the 100mb just goes unused and no drive letter shows up.
     
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  3. J&SinKTO

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    Thanks - will full format then - fine on a win 7 machine, XP machine and jsut crashes explorer. Least know what need to do now.
     
    J&SinKTO, Mar 5, 2010
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