help me save my computer

[bicostp]

What I'd do is copy everything you want to keep onto the 100 gig partition and use the Windows XP install disc to delete the 4 and 10 gig partitions and create a 14 gig partition in their place. Install XP and your software onto the 14 gig partition.

Or buy and install a second hard drive, and use it for booting (use the other drive for storage.)

[loup]

there are some live CDs that have qtparted built in, if you have access to a cd burner that wouldn't be such a bad route. as for a demo, I highly doubt that symantec offers a working demo of partition magic as like many utility programs of its sort, most people would be perfectly happy using it once and then be done with it.

It's too bad that Symantec bought it really, when powerquest owned and maintained it it was updated pretty frequently to work with various technology changes (and somehow kept from getting bloated) but Symantec hasn't updated it once since they bought it and have said that they have no plans to do so in the future.

[dudex77]

What I'd do is copy everything you want to keep onto the 100 gig partition and use the Windows XP install disc to delete the 4 and 10 gig partitions and create a 14 gig partition in their place. Install XP and your software onto the 14 gig partition.

Or buy and install a second hard drive, and use it for booting (use the other drive for storage.)

holy crap why didnt i think of that? but i f i just delete the 4 and 10 gig partitions during the setup does it automatically combine?

[bicostp]

No. You have to manually tell it to delete the partitions, then press "C" before installing and make it create a 14 gig partition. (It should give you the right size, in MB, automatically.) This is done in the blue text interface when you boot from the CD. (No GUI)

Just be careful so you don't delete your 100 gig partition!