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Anyone who've read my other topic here will know I'm having a bit of a problem with my partitions. I have a Windows partition, and, as of today, a lump of around 3gb of unallocated space. PartitionMagic isn't able to merge them, so basically, how would I merge these two partitions? I don't really mind formatting anymore, as long as I can get them to be just one partition.

[cthree]

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management. Delete all partitions and make a new one. Reinstall windows and you're set

[elj]

If it's unallocated space? Make a new partition, make sure it's NTFS if that's what your other partition is, and primary (I think.) Then just merge the two. Works for me.

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It's FAT32, but I'll try that. Thanks both.

[Stephen]

I thought it were using Windows 98? In which case those options don't exist

[elj]

Ooops. I'm not sure with Windows 98.

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I tried doing it with PartitionMagic, however, the same error occurs.
I might just try formatting.

Unless, would it be possible for another OS installer to see the unallocated space and use that for the OS?

[Stephen]

depends, Linux and Windows NT will allow you to select the space and it'll format it as it needs, Windows 9x won't

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Hm, I managed to reinstall Mandrake using the unallocated space. So once I get taht Ubuntu installer using, I'll just see if it works.