# Re-joining partitions **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 15, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/re-joining-partitions/155164 "2005-07-15T04:16:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hsadan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@hsadan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hsadan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/re-joining-partitions/155164/1 "2005-07-15T04:16:29Z")
sorry for the vague title, but I’m not too sure what to put. my friend just got a new hard disk, and so he wants his current hd with 2 partitions to be just 1 partition (he wants to have 2 partitions, not 3). we dont have any fancy programs like partition magic, so I’ll be going into dos and using fdisk to delete the current 2 partitions and create just one primary partition that takes up the whole hard disk. 2 questions: is there anyway I can join them without having to delete and recreate, but without any premium programs (maybe say with xp disk management)? if I were to backup both harddrives as a whole (eg create a disk image), would i be able to restore both onto the new partition and still have them work fine?