Partition my HDD from 2 to 1.

If I partition my HDD from 2 back to 1 HDD will I lose my files in the my 2nd HDD?
I am out of room on my start up disk and have to set my partition back. I was trying to give my first HDD more GB but it won't allow me to...
I would rather just add more GB to my Startup Disk/ 1st Partition but at this point I'll do whatever I need to do .
Thanks!

Yes, if you repartition to a single partition everything in the second partition will be lost.
You will need to first create two partition on and external disk drive to hold all of the data from each of the partitions.
Then you are going to have copy all of the data off of the drive. In order to be sure you get everything you will need to use cloning software, such as SuperDuper or CCC.
Once you do that you can boot from the clone of your system partition.
Then you reformat the internal drive to single partition and clone the partition of the system drive back to the internal drive.
Boot from the internal drive
Then copy data from second partition to internal drive.

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