Question on Partitions

I'm messing with a coworkers computer, clearing some malware and old garbage bogging down the system, and I noticed that his C drive was only 14 gb, while his D drive is 93 gb, C being the primary drive. Talked to him about it, and he just said do whatever you can. I looked a bit and found a program called Easeus. The program suggests that it can create/delete partitions and change the size. As far as I can tell, though, I can only decrease the size, and I don't see anything on merging partitions. I currently have the D drive deleted, and the 93 gb is unallocated. Is there any way to merge them together, or to make D the primary drive and have all files transferred over with no major problems?

 

Not that I have ever used Easeus myself but is there no way of increasing the size of the primary and active 14GB partition.

You deleted the 93GB partition and now have unallocated space after the 14Gb partition. The required operation would not entail merging (merging is for combining 2 partitions) but rather resizing to increase the size of the 14GB partition to take up the rest of the free / unallocated disk space.

Good Luck

 

This will help.
this is for XP
http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_05.htm

these are for Vista
http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-windows-vista

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/

 

Easeus has a slightly difficult interface in that you have to use the sliders to pull the partitions larger or smaller (typing in the desired numbers doesn't seem to work properly, all the time).

If you highlight the C: partition and click Resize/Move, in the window that opens you should see a graph with 3 colors. Yellow(used space on C: ), medium shade (unused space on C: ) and dark shade (unallocated space after C: ). You want to drag the slider between medium and dark to the right to increase the medium shade space and decrease the dark space.

http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/help/resizing-and-moving-partition.htm