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31-Oct-2009, 12:03 AM #1
Vista disc partition modification
I am looking to extend the partition on one of my main drive (C), my main computer drive is split into a C and D drive C being 39 GB and has the OS installed on it and D is the remianing 259 GB. Im looking to extend the C partition.

according to http://www.computerhovel.com/modify-...partition.html through computer management and storage you should be able to modify the particion with the extend volume option. but neither the C or even the D drives for that matter have that option avaliable, both only have the shrink volume. is there a reason for this?

I would imagine to extend the C partition i would have to shrink the D? or it doesn't work like that.
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31-Oct-2009, 12:39 AM #2
Through windows disk management tools you can only shrink or expand the tail end of a partition.....in other words you cant shrink the beginning of D with what you have.

But you can use Gparted to shrink D on the front side of the partition...then go back to windows to expand C out.

There is one other problem though...many times when partition work is done outside of windows,it wont boot and you will have to do a start up repair....to do this you boot your vista dvd and choose start up repair.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpar...d-live-stable/
choose the iso.....then burn an image

boot the cd...shrink D apply the change...exit out
Its very easy once you get booted to the cd....there are some keyboard prompts along the way before you get to the partition tool...once there however its very easy...complete with visuals etc
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31-Oct-2009, 02:56 AM #3
I'm an XP guy, so I not certain how well this applies to Vista, but the operation you describe is a piece of cake on XP using Easeus Partition Master. It a free download and I've used it numerous time to do resizing and moving of partitions on my internal and external drives on my XP Home, my daughters XP Pro and my Grand-Daughter's XP Media Edition computers. Check it out.

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