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by nyilk

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I have two partition (C,D) for Windows 98, and i would like to merge this two partition. Is't any ways for me to merge out this two drive without formatting the pc? How to do it? Please advice !!!Thanks

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by thechas

As DKlippert said, you need a partition manager utility.

NOTE: this only works if you have 1 physical drive that has been partitioned into 2 drives.
If you have 2 physical drives, you cannot combine them into 1 drive.

Keep in mind, that thereare some limits to drive size in W98.
As a general rule, I keep drives under 32GB for W98.

Also, depending on your drive and file sizes, you may actually loose capacity by merging the drives!

Why, If you step up the cluster size without adding a lot of capacity, you may actually use more drive space for your files.

If drive C is 15GB, and drive D is 1.5GB, combining the drives doubles the cluster size. Small files (like favorites and shortcuts) use 1 full cluster, even if they are only 10 bytes long.
So, if you double the cluster size, you can loose drive space.

Chas

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