hi

new to these forums sorry if i have posted in the wrong section

i just bought a laptop wich come with a 40gig HD and on it is 2 PARTITIONS

1) ACER , fat32 , 16.8gig , windows data , my docs etc

2)ACER DATA ,fat32 , 17.2gig , has nothing on it

both partitions are working fine but i would like to delete/remove ACERDATA and set ACER to have all the HD space .

my question . can i do this without completely formating windows and removing updates?
                  if so how?

thank you very much everyone for your time

Jason  No.  Here's a brief REFERENCE with some good info:
http://www.waterwheel.com/Guides/hardrive/hard_drive_partitioning.htm

Frankly, I would just leave that hard drive as is.  Why do you want to make the entire hard drive one partition?  Keeping your data on a separate partition gives you some data protection.  If Windows gets BADLY MESSED up with viruses, spyware, corrupt files, etc., you can format that partition and reinstall Windows while leaving the other partition alone and you still have your data on it.I concur. No ADVANTAGE to changing it and a lot of reasons to leave it as it is.  although you cannot see anything on the second partition it could have hidden restoration files on it please check before you do anything which might wipe them out.ok thank you everyone for your help