4 partitions with lots of data on one drive. Can I merge without loss?

blotsome said:

Darn. I made F: smaller, and extended G:, but you can't merge with the free home version.

Any other ideas?

Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

The free version will merge partitions.

The free version will not merge partitions. "This function is not supported in MiniTool Parition Wizard Home Edition." That is the error message I get. That said, it appears that the free bootable CD version does support merge, but I am having problems with that as well. First, I burned two coasters (ends up the file didn't completely download, as the ISO I was trying to burn had a different file size from the second one I downloaded). Once I got a bootable CD, it appeared to be loading, asked me for the resolution of my monitor, and then gave me an error: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off. It appears there is nothing I can do <http://www.pcmech.com/forum/computer-hardware/215620-partition-wizard.html>. There are options to change the custom load script, but I don't know enough about Linux commands do anything with that. So back to the drawing board. Maybe I should just spend the $19, but then again, I think I'd rather have the 4 partitions, and mess around with resizing them, instead. I can live with that situation, it would just be nice to merge the partition (just not $20 nice).

Just do one task at a time on the resizing, let it finish, then do the next.

Did you try this? Paragon Partition Manager Personal

The demo I tried was going to let me merge two partitions, I just didn't finish it.