Hard Disk Partitions to make one

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Dear Forum,

I've made my old (damaged) Laptop's Hard disk (IDE) portable by purchasing usb enclosure.
That HDD has 3 partition : C: D: & E:. I want to make it one single drive.

Please give me guidance.

Thanks,

Matin

Delete all partitions then create a single one what os r u using

@ mithun_mrg : I'm using WinXP SP3. Since I convert HDD into portable & using it on another computer via USB port. It shows 3 drives and gives only one option : Format.

Copy all data from all partitions on system's HDD, then Merge the drives using System's inbuilt Disk Management tool. And then copy all data which you stored on the system, back to the portable device.
You cannot, just "merge" the drives, without re-formatting.