Dissolving the partitions and formatting the HD!

[jason]

I have WinXP Pro on my PC. My PC has 3 partitions (about 20 GB each). Now I want to dissolve the partitions into one. I want to format my PC and want to install WinXP Pro again, but with one partition of 60 GB. I have taken necessary back up and ready for format anytime. I have WinXP Pro CD (I don't have any bootable floppy etc). I checked internet about the instructions but can't understand them clearly. What do I need to do to format and dissolve the partitions? Please give me simple instructions. My PC's configuration is Intel, Celeron 1.10 GHz, 512 MB RAM.
Thanks!

 

[Praetor]

Here's the skinny on installing XP: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

You will have the option of "selecting which partition to install to" during the install at which point you can delete all the partitions and recreate a partition that is 60GB and installing to that

 

[donaldo]

Partion Magic works well. Merge 2 partions at a time then do 2 more. Or get a win 98 startup disk run fdisk when booted to A: and delete non-dos partions. When disk is clean start mahine with XP CD and load as normal.