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Well my new laptop is great, but there is something stupid about it.  The HDD is partitioned I guess so theres a 75GB "Vista OS" drive and a 70GB "Data" drive.  I've already used about 40GB of the "Vista OS" drive and I'm concerned that as I add programs later it will get used up so I want to just combine both into one big drive (like it SHOULD have come because it makes more sense).

How can I do this if at all possible?

I don't think its possible, You should have formatted the laptop the minute you got it, and upon installing or reinstalling vista you should have deleted both partitions completely and combined them as one, my acer comes the same way (Desktop computer I am using now) But because I dual boot operating systems it's conveinant, However Without a total reinstall of a clean OS or using some partitioning software of some kind, its not possible with data on the drives.

Gunny

I had the same problem with my PC. Only solution I found was to do a clean install and re-format the harddrive during installation into one partition.

Did it come with a restore CD? If not that other partition may be a recovery partition.

[quote]Well my new laptop is great, but there is something stupid about it.

I moved FSX and FS9 over the the D drive, now I've got just under 50GB free on either disc.  I figured I'd use the D for 'fun stuff' like music and games and the C drive for 'serious' stuff related to school.  My FS2004 was close to 40GB on my old machine, its about 5 or 6 right now, so I have plenty of space if I am more conservative and only install good stuff (and not install the huge AI pack I had that probably made up about 20 of the 40 gigabytes)