Partition Merging and Cloning Software. Anything like that available?

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I have a 120 GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I will be getting a larger SDD (haven't decided on size yet) big enough to hold all my data on both drives plus plenty of room to spare. Then I will eliminate the HDD altogether.

I would like to avoid doing a clean install of Win7 if possible. Is there any cloning software available that will merge the SSD's partition and the HDD's partition into one on the new SSD? I'd rather not have 2 partitions if possible. Thanks.
 
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If there is a disk-cloning program able to achieve your objective I'm not aware of it.

AFAIK, you would need to clone each disk separately to the destination disk and that of course would result in two partitions on that disk. Now you could merge those two partitions following the d-c operation, but you would need to employ a third-party disk/partition management type of program to do so. And again, AFAIK, the "freebie" versions of those programs do not possess that capability; only their commercial versions do.

Now I suppose you could do a Google search to determine if a freely available program is available that can accomplish the merging; I'm just not aware of one. Perhaps some other person perusing this thread knows of one.
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If there is a disk-cloning program able to achieve your objective I'm not aware of it.

AFAIK, you would need to clone each disk separately to the destination disk and that of course would result in two partitions on that disk. Now you could merge those two partitions following the d-c operation, but you would need to employ a third-party disk/partition management type of program to do so. And again, AFAIK, the "freebie" versions of those programs do not possess that capability; only their commercial versions do.

Now I suppose you could do a Google search to determine if a freely available program is available that can accomplish the merging; I'm just not aware of one. Perhaps some other person perusing this thread knows of one.
 
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