Partitioning

[Giarc86]

I have two HDDs in my machine, the second one a 250GB has a NTFS partition with files on it on it as well as an ext3 partition with some distro; Fedora or Ubuntu.

What I want to do is wipe the ext3 partition so I can have extra space for my things in Windows.
Now if I wipe the ext3, and then format it as NTFS, I assume I will get 2 NTFS partitions? Is there any way to combine it into the original NTFS to get one NTFS without loosing my existing files?

Thanks

 

[rurapente]

something like partition magic can do that, but i would backup my data before trying it. I've never had issues but the possibility of data loss exists.

 

[BlaQ_PhoeniX]

Boot Ubuntu live CD and run gparted (Partition Editor). Make sure all partition's are unmounted then DELETE the ext3 partition and then resize/extend the NTFS partition to the unallocated space. Should work.

 

[howardb]

Also try Acronis Disk Director - should also let you delete/resize without data loss - backup first though!

 

[Giarc86]

I don't have space to back my stuff up though lol
Thanks though, I shall look into those apps

 

[howardb]

LOL
Backup is always a precaution - to be honest, I've never backed up any data before using Acronis DD to adjust/delete/create partitions, but then again, I've only used it on Fat32 and NTFS partition types, not ext3.

 

[ponder]

Before resizing that ntfs partition run a defrag & checkdisk on it.