Eliminate partition before resize the other?

Resize C partition procedure

[silverbytes]

I have C with OS and programs partitioned in 20gb and
F now empty with anohter 20gb

Should I first eliminate the F partition with the disk manager that comes with windows xp?

Or go directly to the 3rd party software to resize C, I mean may a program resize C taking the space on F partition (I don't know how that works)

[LifeinAsia]

Depending on the 3rd party software, it should allow you to delete the partition and then resize C. In some programs, it may be a 2-step process (delete partition, then resize, with a reboot in between). Others may combine both steps into 1 process.

Either way, the F partition will have to be deleted before the C partition can be resized to take over the space.

[edited by: LifeinAsia at 5:51 pm (utc) on May 18, 2007]