hard drive partition problem

[spoddynerd]

My pc has a 256 GB hard drive partitioned into two 128GB NTFS partitions which the BIOS, Windows XP boot disk and Partition Magic/ fdisk all seem to think are primary partitions on two separate disks (1 and 2). None of these can delete or merge either of the two partitions because they don't recognise them as being contiguous storage on the same disk.

Booting from the XP disc doesn't help for the above reason.

I arrived in this state by partitioning with PartitionMagic, then reinstalling XP without first merging the partitions.

What can I do?

 

[wolluf]

reply is in your general discussion thread - you should only post in one forum (as has been pointed out to me recently!)