help with partition merging?

[m3gach33zy]

Hey guys. I recently had ubuntu on my desktop and the HDD was partitioned half for ubuntu and half for xp x64 version. I thought delete the ubuntu partition it'd go away and they'd merge but I guess not. Right now when I try to follow some directions though some other people about increasing the free space it fails. When I opened acronis I used the automatic mode and it only contains one partition which is the main one for xp. I cannot locate the second partition to increase the free space. Right now i'm doing the acronis recovery expert trying to recover the partition. If it lets me re-enable the partition than I suppose everything should go smoothly... but if it doesnt than I need some help on trying to locate the 2nd partition and how to increase the free space of the 1st partition. I just want the whole HDD to be whole again without partitions. So if anyone has any advice please let me know. Thanks

[decimus28UMO]

you can boot into a Ubuntu version still?

[decimus28UMO]

if you can you could goto terminal and type "sudo su" to get root rights, "fdisk -l" to find the drive you want ex. "dev/hda"
then "fdisk dev/hda" or whatever your drive is
"d" to delete a partion
"1-4" to chose the one you want to delete
"w" to write changes
that should make the space unallocated and visable to Disk director
just be careful on which HD and partion you choose

[m3gach33zy]

No I can no longer boot into ubuntu. Incidentally I ended up reformatting the first partition with xp because the grub loader wouldnt allow me to access the boot menu to get to the xp selection. So I guess I solved that portion by reformatting. But right now Acronis wont let me see other partition. Right now i'm doing the recovery expert and its almost done. It is showing 4 F drives but they are all the same, yet the first one has a green flag on it whatever that means.... and the type is ext3 intead of NTFS. So i'm not sure what's going on here.

[decimus28UMO]

4 F drives or 4 partitions under that disk?

[m3gach33zy]

alrighty then the recovery went well! Acronis can now recognize that i have an empty partiton and i'm working on extending it. But now i see that there is a new partition that is called linux swap. What am I supposed to do with that? Can I somehow reformat the linux partition into free space and than the linux swap space to increase the C drive more?

[MudCrab]

You should be able to just delete the Linux Swap partition. This should leave unallocated space which you should be able to use by resizing the Windows partition.

Using DD in Manual Mode gives you more control.