PARTITION PROBLEM HARD DRIVE IS PARTITIONED C: & F:. C:(12GB) IS FULL AND MOST PROGRAMS MUST RUN FROM C:. F:(25GB) IS EMPTY. CAN I RENAME THE PARTITIONS?

SOURCE: Can I move hard drive from 1 PC(xp home) to xp pro/vista

yes you can , all you do is remove from old pc place in new 1 and connect up being sata it will be found straight away and given a drive letter
the second part is will all my data be able to open , all data stored on it except for some program files will work the ones that wont work are the ones that had command lines wriiten to the registry.
these fail as the registrty is new and does not contain the data required to run them
hope this helps.

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you can merge to partitions on a single disk, although this should be one of your last resorts. when two partitions are created on a single drive the OS recognizes the two partitions as two seperate drives. From win xp pro, you can access all the data on the partition with xp home platform. the second partition will take up close to a gig of space that could be used. the simplest way would be to creat shortcuts to the programs you want in the partition for xp pro. then right click my computer> properties> advanced> start up and recovery settings> select win xp as the default OS and deselect the box marked "time to display operating systems"

this will stop that annoying 30 sec pause that you get when you start your computer asking which OS you want to run.

or if you seriously want to merge the two, here is a link with a download that will help.....download this file and creat an disk to insert into the disk drive and restart to load from the disk
http://download2.lsoft.net/BootDiskDemo-Setup.exe

the only thing is that if you write over or delete files that those programs need to run smoothly, you will have to reinstall them completely. in which case you would be just as well off to back up your info and do a clean install. i trust you will be able to determin which solution is best for you needs.
Personally if i had programs i wanted to save, i would take the first option and just have two partitions

SOURCE: hard drive full running xp ,drive is paritionedc,d

Hello,

To delete a partiition is quite easy in windows. but you will need a third party application like "partition magic" to merge two partitions together, this could be costly

The best advice I could give you is to back up all your information and reinstall your windows straight onto one partition. This will improve your overall speed and also probly also free more space by deleting unwanted programs, spam etc.

Regards