[SOLVED] How do I combine 2 partitions on one hard drive?

are you not able to right click on your c drive and select "extend" within the disk management ?

 

Good to hear, sorted then

 

One small related query: I know it is possible to increase size of c: OS in windows (say from 100 GB to 101 GB) or to reduce its size. Partition Manager for one can do it from within windows 7 or through boot CD. However, what happens to the images made by imaging software such as acronis, ghost, etc. Say, I had an image of c: 100 GB and subsequently reduced c: to 90 GB or increased it to 110 GB. Later, what happens when I restore from that image of 100 GB (C)

 

It will be ok, depending on which software you use, you can select the new same, keep the same... ect..

 

I think that if you restore from an image your drive will be wiped and re-partitioned to the way it was when you made the image, thus restoring the 100GB partition from that image, and any other partitions in the image. Not sure though, I've never done the exact thing you describe. However, if I'm wrong, I'd like to know what DOES happen

 

Thanks for some clarification, but not the complete answer. Restoring a C: 90 GB to a later C: of 100 GB is supposed to be easy, with the 90 GB image fitting on 100 GB C, with 10 GB perhaps unallocated. However, not sure what happens when 90 GB image is restored to a C: 80 GB (size of C: reduced).

Softwares used are boot cd of acronis, ghost; and windows installs of paragon, and windows 7 imaging.
For partitioning, boot cd of partition wizard home.

 

what software are you using, please

 

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Yeah, recently did some partitioning on my hard drive and Acronis Disk Director Home is good and friendly. Click and drag and upon reboot, Acronis will do its thing.

 

I used that too and it's great, I used the boot cd of an older version (before 2010) and Acronis simply resizes to fit!