Hi Jacob, Is the heat getting to you? What did you do to create them? Anyway , is it possible you assigned drive letters to the folders that now look like separate drives or partitions? Subst is a command line utility to do this ,but there's a GUI version of it too called Visual Subst http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/map-a-drive-letter-to-a-folder-the-easy-way-in-windows/ http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/visual-subst.html Have you tried a System Restore? Are you following the topic on imaging (Restore) on PCSOFT? Peter E. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jacob Smith" Sent: Thursday, 07 June, 2012 4:32 PM To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [PCBUILD] partition maze! I accidentally wound up with four partitions; my main one which is too small, one with my desktop, and one with all other personal data, the other one is empty and I don't remember creating it I tried to use EasUs partition master to join the empty one and my main partition, but it warned me that doing so may result in loss of data and boot-ability. any Ideas on how to safely slim down the number of partitions and increase the size of my main partition? -- Blessings, Jacob Smith The NOSPIN Group has added a new feature on our website, web based bulletinboard for questions and answers: Visit our sister website at http://nospin.com