First post, by Eimer
I have the following issue.
Most of my retro systems have an either 40 or 80GB drive with two partitions splitted in 50% of the entire capacity of the drive.
when I put a drive in the secondary IDE channel with my extension bay, it puts this drive as D: and pushes the previous D: partition to E:
therefore, games I installed on D: don't work properly when the second HDD is present.
so I thought, screw it, I need to merge both partitions of the first drive.. but extending the first partition doesn't seem to be possible, so I have no choice but to reformat.
I don't want to reinstall Windows as I have plenty of stuff installed and everything is working properly.
So I was thinking of backing up all the files with all of its attributes to the second drive, reformatting the first drive, recreating the MBR with format /s, and copying everything back.
Would this work without any issues?
I was thinking of using xcopy with this, would this work? or should I use something better, but what?
If xcopy would work, what parameters do I have to use?