[Ghaleon]

Hi All,

I finally deleted a 7 gig eisa partition from my laptop hard drive that my comps manufacturer had been using to store restore files. But when I opened disk managment it would not let me extend my c drive into this new, unallocated space. I can turn the space into its own simple partition, but I cannot merge it with another partition. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[JohnWill]

You probably will have to use a 3rd party partitioning utility to do that. I've found that while Vista's partitioning is better than XP, it's not as good as things like Acronis Disk Director or Partition Magic.

[Ghaleon]

ok, so partition magic apparently does not work on vista. but acronis does. However it still will not let me extend my drive. When i try to, it goes through its usual process, reboots a couple of times and... does absolutely nothing. the unallocated space is still there and there's no error message. Any ideas? Thanks!

[Elvandil]

Try it from CD. It sounds like you are doing it from within Vista.

The PM boot media should work, too.

[Ghaleon]

Success! Thanks!