Re-grouping a partitioned hard drive.

Hi there. I recently purchased a new computer, and the hard drive came partitiened in two sections. I'd like to put these back together, and partition it again so i leave rougly 50gb for the OS and any other files, and leave 450gb for anything else I'll install or use.

Essentially, I want to use the second partition for everything that isn't ued for booting my computer, to keep things more organized. Is there any way I can do this without having to completely reformat my computer?

 

What is the size of the existing partitions?

Why did it come with two partitions?

 

It seems like every new Acer comes like that, for reasons unknown.

If you want to "merge" them into one giant partition the disk manager will help you there, but you need to get anything you don't want deleted off of the "other" partition. To "merge" them, you have to delete the other partition, and extend the primary out to cover the unused space. Or you can extend the Primary partition out however far you want to give it more capacity, then format the unused space into another partition.

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One partition most probably contains the recovery.That partition is protected and disc managment will probably not delete it(it is usually greyed out).If that's the case use:

Best FREE Partition Manager Freeware for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7. EASEUS free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

With that you can shape your partitions any way you want.
And no you don't have to reformat.You just delete the partition you don't want and extend the other one(it takes some time for the files to move).