• Around The HomeToggle Menu

    • Entertainment
    • Productivity
    • Smart Home
  • FamilyToggle Menu

    • Parenting
    • Toys
    • Pets
    • Travel
  • ReviewsToggle Menu

    • Phones
    • Tablets
    • Laptops
    • Desktops
    • Wearables
    • Audio
    • Cameras
    • Headphones
    • Printers
    • Smart Home
    • TVs
    • Gaming and Video
  • One Cool ThingToggle Menu

    • Frugal Tech
    • Kickstarters
    • Videos
  1. Home
  2. Around The Home
  3. Productivity
  4. How to Merge a Disk Partition

How to Merge a Disk Partition

By: Joel Douglas
  • Share
  • Share on Facebook

Partitions divide a single hard drive into multiple virtual drives. Multiple partitions let you install multiple operating systems or better organize files on a single hard drive. You can merge multiple partitions using partition-management software.

...
Merge multiple disk partitions using partition-management software.

Methods

Partition-management programs such as Paragon Partition Manager, Easeus Partition Manager and Acronis Disk Director will merge disk partitions. These programs let you merge two or more partitions without reformatting the hard drive. Partitioning programs use nondestructive methods for merging partitions so that you will not lose the data contained in each partition.

Benefits

You can merge partitions to increase available system space when one partition is full. For example, if you store your operating system on one partition and your programs and files on a second, and the first partition is full, you can merge the two partitions to increase the disk space available to the operating system.

Video of the Day

Considerations

Although partition-management programs preserve the data stored on each partition, you should still back up the data on each before merging the partitions in case an error occurs. For example, a power outage during the merger process could result in data loss on both partitions. Partition-management software also cannot merge partitions containing different operating system installations.

Show Comments

Related Articles

How to Convert a VHD or VMDK File to TIB

How to Convert a VHD or VMDK File to TIB

Around The Home
Productivity
By: Keith Manning
How to Repair Corrupted Files

How to Repair Corrupted Files

Around The Home
Productivity
By: Techwalla Contributor
How to Make a Bootable Flash Drive

How to Make a Bootable Flash Drive

Around The Home
Productivity
By: David Wayne
How to Clean Up a Mac OS X Hard Drive

How to Clean Up a Mac OS X Hard Drive

Around The Home
Productivity
By: Joshua Duvauchelle
How to Partition an SSD Drive

How to Partition an SSD Drive

Around The Home
Productivity
By: Mandy Slake
How to Merge With DiskPart

How to Merge With DiskPart

Around The Home
Productivity
By: Kenrick Callwood
  • HOW WE SCORE
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US
  • TERMS
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • COPYRIGHT POLICY
  • Advertise

An error occurred. Try again later.

Thanks for signing up!
© 2019 Leaf Group Ltd. Leaf Group Media

Get great tech advice delivered to your inbox.

Keep your family productive, connected, entertained, and safe.

Please enter a valid email.