Windows 10: Spann or expand 2 partitions on the same drive?

i have a external HDD that has a bad sector on it so i isolated and tacked down where the sector is and made partitions around it. now i have 2 healthy partitions that i wish i could merge back into one partition or extend it.







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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Partition or multiple hard drives?

As the title suggests. Is it worth installing say a 36GB drive for the OS soley or partitioning an existing larger drive with either 2 or more partitions? I am currently running Vista 32bit and want to try out 64bit and am sick of reformatting the whole drive. Any suggestions?

 

Expanding C drive partition

Disk 3 is the new, larger SSD, whixh will eventuwlly become C, or disk 0, the boot drive. What i am trying to do is take the cloned partition and expand it, to take advantage of the space on the larger drive.