Problems Combining Free Spaace

I have an extended DOS partition that did have five logical drives. I have deleted 2 of the logical drives with each logical drive being about 2 GB in size. My intentions were to combine the resulting 4 GB of free space, create a new logical drive, and install Windows XP Professional. I currently am running Windows 98, W2K Pro, and W2K Server. Pro and Server partitions are formatted in NTFS and Windows 98 partition is FAT32.

Is it possible to combine the two chunks of free space that I now have and create one logical drive? I have tried to accomplish this through FDISK but it will only show my D partition, which is in the Extended DOS partition when I choose to view the partition information. My D partition is 14 GB in size and is where I install all applications.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jeff Farrar

I would suggest using a third party software such as partition magic. I use it and it is great.

If you have a few bucks to spare, <a href="http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/" target="_blank">Partition Magic</a> should accomplish what you are trying to do. I believe version 7 and above will let you merge NTFS partitions.

I once merged the free space of three separate partitions into one additional partition. Partition Magic worked like a charm.

You can do this from either win2k or winxp but I would suggest the OS that is on the first partition (or the main if you will). Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Managment and go to Storage, Disk Managment. Once there it will scan your systems disk drives and show you how they are partitioned and if space is free. Select the free space and Right clik. I'm not sure exactly what the option is but I think it's something to the effect of "Add to primary partition" or something like that. I'm sure you'll figure it out. Good luck.