Two-partition merger on a new HDD

[shavale]

I've had issues in the past (but not for over a year now) with viruses getting in and stopping my windows from working and as such I've had to reinstall windows and lose much of my data. In response to this, I made my HDD into two partitions: one with windows (C, and the other with everything else (E even my installed programs.

Anyway, my windows partition is now getting rather full (due to a lack of oversight on my part) but I've had it this way for so long that I really don't want to have to reinstall windows. I also just got a new HDD that I'd like to put JUST my windows and installed programs on, and the rest of my data on my old one.



Basically, I'm taking my old drive and using it as storage and I want my new drive to have everything that my old one did but on one partition instead of two without having to reinstall. I'm a trained professional, so don't be afraid to go all "techy" on me.

 

[shavale]

I also forgot to mention that I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate.

Failing the ability to help me do this, I could always just move the windows partition on the new drive. However, how would I go about editing the registry so that ALL of my programs would now be registered to be on the same drive as windows?

 

[scout_03]

or this one http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

 

[shavale]

Do they still insure that the programs work if windows was on one partition and the programs on another? I know that I can merge partitions, but I fear that they wouldn't work given my setup.

 

[scout_03]

you could go to the support forum and ask what you want to do is safe

 

[shavale]

I ended up in using EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.0 Home Edition and just recreated my current setup on the new drive with the difference of making the two partitions use approx 49.5% each (other 1% went to the partition that windows 7 creates).

It works pretty well, actually. It's not what I wanted to do, but it'll do.

 

[shavale]

Best answer selected by shavale.

 

[shavale]

you have no need to reinstall your computer because you could choose some free partition manager like EaseUs recommended, and Aomei Partition Assistant. refer to the following article:
extend-partition/resource/merge-partition-on-disk.html
download here:
http://www.partition-magic-download.com

I didn't reinstall. I copied the entire drive over to the new one but with some changes with the size of each partition. The new drive seems a little slow though... balls.