I partitioned my 1T hard drive into two 500 gig partitions and now I want to remove the one partition because I want the space. I don't want to reformat the hard drive. I was looking on line to see how to do this and I found some free software CALLED "Partition Wizard MINI Tool", https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html. Is this safe to use or should I use something else?

 ThanksIt is a good program. But use it with care. It does what you tell it to do. The best free partition software is Easeus (http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html). Two things:

1) Be sure to create an image of your drive(s) (or at the very least, backup critical data) before performing any drive LEVEL activities such as repartitioning.

2) You are not going to gain any space as such. You are simply going to eliminate one partition and combine the space from that partition with the other.
Well I got it to work. I deleted the "Recovery" partition between the two MAIN partitions, http://www.howtogeek.com/139710/remove-your-pc’s-recovery-partition-and-take-control-of-your-hdd/, then with AOMEI Partition Assistant Lite, http://www.disk-partition.com/partition-assistant-lite.html, I resized my C partition to as big as it would go, 931.41gb. Now my drive shows the larger partition.



[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]If you're happy, we're happy   Quote from: sloan448 on July 24, 2016, 03:16:10 PM

Well I got it to work. I deleted the "Recovery" partition ...

I'm wondering, do you understand why your computer had a "Recovery" partition?