HD Partition help - Vista

[R360]

I need some help extending a partition on my hard drive. Set up is as follows:

PC running Vista
Hard drive is 232.88GB and is partitioned to the following:
C: 130.17 GB NTFS
G: 51.36 GB NTFS
H: 25.73 GB NTFS – This was 50GB but I have used the shrink facility to put this down to 25GB, and I now have 25.63 GB which is ‘Unallocated’.



I am trying to extend the C: but I can not seem to use the extend volume option.

All of this is being accessed via Computer Management and Disk Management, what am I doing wrong?

[tossbag]

If you right click the unnallocated space, what options do you get?
You should be able to format it that way.

[R360]

tossbag said:

If you right click the unnallocated space, what options do you get?
You should be able to format it that way.

When i clicked the unallocated space i got the option to create a new simple volume, which i did but all that does is create a new partition, i want to add the unallocated space to the first partition which is the 130 GB C:. The reason i want to do this is because i am running out of space on the C:

[bodhi]

I don't think you can I'm afraid, as you are trying to extend C: into the next drive. That image shows roughly how the data is laid out on the drive, and I don;t think Windows will let you split the drive over two sections of disk. You'll need to move some stuff off C: I'm afraid.

[TonyRPH]

Download the GnuParted live CD, boot from it and resize your partitions as you want them to be.

[itsnotarace]

bodhi said:

I don't think you can I'm afraid, as you are trying to extend C: into the next drive. That image shows roughly how the data is laid out on the drive, and I don;t think Windows will let you split the drive over two sections of disk. You'll need to move some stuff off C: I'm afraid.

Dell Extpart will do the job fine on a system partition, no messing about.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download...

Readme: http://ftp.us.dell.com/App/ExtPart.txt

VI. USAGE

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extpart [volume size]
volume - the volume to extend. e.g. f:, g:, etc (only basic volumes)
size - the size in megabytes by which to extend the volume.

Example:
To extend the g: volume by 1 GB (1024 MB) use the following command:
extpart g: 1024

[tossbag]

You should be able to create a simple partition, when that is done and formatted you can then right click it again and expand the partition next to it so it fills the space.
Shouldn't need any software to do it.

[dibbly dobbler]

The partitions need to be contiguous iirc - ie next to each other - so you'll have to shuffle them around a bit to make space next to the one you want to extend.

[TonyRPH]

dibbly dobbler said:

The partitions need to be contiguous iirc - ie next to each other - so you'll have to shuffle them around a bit to make space next to the one you want to extend.

Correct

Hence my suggestion to use GnuParted to shuffle them around and create a contiguous portion.

[Man-At-Arms]

R360 said:

er - please don't tell me you're using H: as your backup ?

if the HD fails - then you loose your backup too

[R360]

Thanks for all the tips guys, will have another play with it.

Man-At-Arms said:

R360 said:

er - please don't tell me you're using H: as your backup ?

if the HD fails - then you loose your backup too

Yup the backup is on the same physical hard drive but i also have a copy on a USB hard drive too.

[buggalugs]

TonyRPH said:

dibbly dobbler said:

The partitions need to be contiguous iirc - ie next to each other - so you'll have to shuffle them around a bit to make space next to the one you want to extend.

Correct

Hence my suggestion to use GnuParted to shuffle them around and create a contiguous portion.

Windows disk management can't shuffle the other partitions along, but gparted can. I use it often

[R360]

I have tried Extpart but it does not seem to work, each time i try i get the following mesage:

'Unable to connect to C or it does not exist'
I have tried with the other drives but still get the same reply

Going to try Gparted now, just downloading it