Hi all again,
I have a 80gb DRIVE which is partitioned into two 40gb drives C & D, what I would like to know is can I REMOVE the partition from my (80gb) drive to make it a 80gb MASTER and if so will there be any problems !!
thanks
NedHi Mac,
This one below sounds good, but could you give me a idot's giude on how to do it please as I am not up to speed on all this.
also can I leave all my programs etc where they are without reinstalling them !!
Thanks
Ned

delete the D: drive, delete the Extended partition (outlined in green) delete the C: drive and make a new C: drive using the full 80 GB.

Since you are obviouslyh new to this, the thing to remember is that by using any of these tools there is a chance of losing all of your data. If you want to proceed just be sure and back up anything you may want first.

I am curious why you would want to do these partition manipulations. What is the goal of having one big partition?The thing is I have a large number of photographs stored on my “D” drive which is the other partitioned half of “C” drive, Now if xp or any of the programs has a fault that means I have to reboot the drive I loose all my photos etc, But if I put them on a new hard drive they will be safe, but there will be 40 GB wasted!!
Or is there a better way!!!!
Thanks for all your help
Ned
If they are that important they need to be backed up on CD anyway. All hard drives die eventually, and if yours goes, so do the photos.

The 40 gig on the D drive is perfectly usable as is. Again, I don't understand the need to remove it and make one big partition. 80 gig is 80 gig usable space, no matter how it is partitioned.Hello ned1,
As I understand: 40 Gb for OS is too much for you, in case of failure you'll loose everything from this partition.
But I've found the solution:
I had 40&40Gb HDD,
I used Acronis Disk Director and resize the partitions,
so now I have 1 partition only for OS,apps - 20 GB, and the REST 60GB for storage (I keep there photo, VIDEO and other needed data). By the way duging resizing the partitions I didn't loose any data!
As for backup, it's better to create and image from OS partition, it'll give you possiability to restore your OS partition from image without damage other partition.