Basically what's happened is that I have Vista Home Basic on my main partition (C: Drive) and Home Premium on the other (D: Drive). I want Premium to be my main OS, but I can't figure out how to format the C: Drive so I can delete it and add it to my other partition. Disk Management won't allow me to as it says C: is a boot drive and can't be formatted. Is there any way for me to delete the Basic partition and merge the free space with the Premium one, making it my only partition?
Booting a windows XP or Vista disk should allow you to delete any partition. I've never tried merging partitions but I am sure it can't be 2 hard to figure out once the original partition is deleted.
Norton Partition Magic allows you to merge partitions. But as you claims, c: is the primary partition, and thus d: is a logical partition, so you must convert d to a primary partition after merging c:, and then you can do what you wanted to.
Woooooowww sounds really complicated..........i know there is software to mess with partitions but once you involve Vista installations on each of them it seems hard to do :? Just save important stuff and start over with Premium, basic is garbage MS should get rid of it.
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