Merge Boot & System partitions

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flying fish

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Hey,
I have two vista partitions on the same drive. I would like to merge them together. I tried to merge them with Easeus Partition Manager but it alerted me that it cannot merge them because one is a boot drive and the other is a system drive. Is there any way to merge the two together?

I'm using Vista 32. Thanks.
 

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Welcome
Trust me dont fool with the boot driver or you will be back saying that you cant boot. I dont know of any worthwhile reason you would want to merge the two anyway.
 

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Thanks for the reply.

Honestly, I'm fine with formatting the D partition. As you can see, the C partition needs more space and I was hoping to get delete most of the crap on the D drive after the merge. I would be fine with just deleting the D partition but I worry that it will screw up the boot process. See the bcdedit info below.
Know of any way to delete the D parition while making sure Vista on C will still boot?

Code: 
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=D:
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {globalsettings}
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {fc0eddb1-fc91-11dd-b6a1-806e6f6e6963}
displayorder            {current}
                        {7aa3bdbe-fcaa-11dd-adbd-cc420cfaf19f}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Microsoft Windows Vista
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {85800e52-5211-11de-9b9a-91084d21f89d}
nx                      OptIn
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {7aa3bdbe-fcaa-11dd-adbd-cc420cfaf19f}
device                  partition=D:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows Vista (TM) Business (recovered)
osdevice                partition=D:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {fc0eddb1-fc91-11dd-b6a1-806e6f6e6963}
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
I'm with rich... Playng with a boot partion is EVIL
 

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    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
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    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
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    Dual 22" // Headless
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    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
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    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
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    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
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Are you saying that you have 2 installations of Vista?
 

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    HP Pavillion Elite HPE-250f
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    Intel i7 860 Quad core 2.8 ghz
    Memory
    8 gb
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 gb ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Alienware 25 AW2521HF
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 &1680x1050
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    1 TB x2
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    Windows 2012 R2 Data center/Linux Mint
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    i3 9100 3.6GHz, 8M cache, 4C/4T
    Memory
    8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
    Screen Resolution
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    Hard Drives
    1 TB & 360 GB x2
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Yeah, two installations of vista. You've guys have convinced me. I'm going to just leave both installations and remove the 30 second boot manager timeout. I've just deleted most files from the D drive using Ubuntu (it bypassed some file permission issues) and added that extra space to the C drive. Not the most elegant solution but better than having to re install Vista.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 

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You are very welcome and good luck
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
Well I hope that you didn't delete too much.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 8.1 Industry Pro x64
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavillion Elite HPE-250f
    CPU
    Intel i7 860 Quad core 2.8 ghz
    Memory
    8 gb
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 gb ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Alienware 25 AW2521HF
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 &1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    1 TB x2
    Other Info
    https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-elite-hpe-250f/
  • Operating System
    Windows 2012 R2 Data center/Linux Mint
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Poweredge T140
    CPU
    i3 9100 3.6GHz, 8M cache, 4C/4T
    Memory
    8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    1 TB & 360 GB x2
    Other Info
    https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetailstxn/poweredge-t140?~ck=bt
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