Qosmio G20: Merge partitions

Hello, I have a Qosmio G20 with two 60 GB hard drives. The first drive has two equal partitions, C: and E:. I would like to delete E: and only have C:.
I have tried with Partition Magic, and deleting E: is no problem, but I cannot extend C:
Does anybody know how to solve this?

Hi
In my knowledge if there are some errors on the HDD the partition cannot be extended or its not possible to make some changes.
I would recommend to defragment the HDD and additional you can run the chkdsk.
The try again to extend the C

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