Hack 44 Merge Partitions with PartitionMagic 
Merge two partitions into one with
PartitionMagic.
Whether you have two
partitions or ten and need to make an adjustment to shrink or grow
the size of a specific partition, or you want to move the contents of
one partition into another by merging them, PartitionMagic has the
power to do the work for you.
In this hack we'll take two of the partitions we had
from the previous hack, [Hack #43]
and merge them into one larger partition. Starting at the main
PartitionMagic window, follow these steps:
Select Merge partitions under Pick a Task... from the main menu at
the upper left. Select the first partition to be merged with another, as shown in
Figure 5-14.
 Select the second partition to be merged, as shown in Figure 5-15. The contents of the second partition will be moved into a folder on
the first or merged partition, so the program needs to know the name
of this new folder, as you see in Figure 5-16.
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At this point, you're probably worried that Windows
or some program will lose track of the data you're
moving; however, PartitionMagic includes a tool called Drive Mapper
that looks for and changes references to the old partition and
folders to reflect the new drive and folder they moved to.
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When you are done with the merge selections, you will return to the
main window. Click the Apply button to let the program complete the
operation.
In two hacks, the power of third-party partitioning software should
be quite obvious and prove to be much easier and less risky that
making a lot of backups, using FDISK or XP's Disk
Management tools, and moving data yourself.
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