Hard drive

[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?

ps. I raised a similar thread yesterday, but have started a new thread due to a now modified perspective of the problem.

 

[rvnguy]

spoddynerd,

You know the rules

Double post
thread602-1177614

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[wolluf]

You've now got 2 threads in this forum, one in forum602 (haardware - general) and one in form751 (hardware hard drive). It getting confusing!