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I have an external hard drive with two partitions, both of them are clear, there is no data on them. How can I merge the two partitions together to form one again? The file system is not NTFS.

This is probably a stupid question, yet I could find nothing about it on the web :S

Thanks a lot!

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This question has nothing to do with programming. Questions asked on Stack Overflow should be related to programming or software development in some way. Your question belongs on superuser.com which is for general software/hardware questions. – Jasarien Feb 11 '10 at 16:23
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You will want to use the Disk Utility(use the Spotlight to find) to delete one of the partions, then re-size the first one to occupy all of the free space. A good tutorial on how to use the Disk Utility to resize a partition can be found here.

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If you're having any problems using Disk Utility, then repair the drives using Disk Utility. You can also use iPartition but for a simple case like this there's no need to pay for 3rd party tools. – alimack Feb 18 '10 at 10:06
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