[EricB]

oh ok. then it was as I originally thought. I knew that you could do it you delete the partitions. I thought that you merged them and kept the data

[Denise_M]

I did keep the data but not while merging the partitions.

Also . . . Just to caution that this can only be used to merge partitions starting from the back forward and can't be used to merge the C partition with other partitions without destroying the operating system. As I said in the original post:

My C partition remained intact since it wasn't involved.

[TheMajor]

I see, I thought you merged them without loosing the data.