Windows 7: Extending my Windows 7 Partition

Night Hawk · 19 Aug 2009

Great! Just Remember to schedule the checkdisk utility with the repair switch "chkdsk /r" typed in at the command prompt to run on the next startup. That will insure the resizing seen there has maintained it's integrity.

Dave76 · 21 Aug 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by DarkDavil

Hah yea

Once again Thank You all

Your welcome,

Glad I could be of some help!

Dave

chev65 · 21 Aug 2009

In the amount of time this thread took I could have installed Windows 7 30 times and also created and extended about a thousand partitions. Sometimes it's faster and easier to just start from scratch.

SIW2 · 21 Aug 2009

True, but the OP has learned something about moving/merging partitions - and got suggestions for some great free apps.

Night Hawk · 21 Aug 2009

You got that right on the spot! SIW2

The help we can offer is simply part of a learning process for anyone new. Just because "we" can do something faster "we" don't go around critising someone simply because they don't have that amount of experience! They might just turn around and end up showing "us" something "we" DIDN'T know!

iseeuu · 21 Aug 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Night Hawk

You got that right on the spot! SIW2

The help we can offer is simply part of a learning process for anyone new. Just because "we" can do something faster "we" don't go around critising someone simply because they don't have that amount of experience! They might just turn around and end up showing "us" something "we" DIDN'T know!

Well put Night Hawk, I totally agree.

What was it Sato said at the end of Karate Kid II? "Your student has become my teacha." (Sorry, I am an incurable movie buff)

Night Hawk · 21 Aug 2009

It went something like that! I caught all three of those as well as some other oldies!

Otten here when planning a dual boot if the first is shrunk down I simply nuke the second primary and create the new larger one for a clean install there. But I've also spent a great of time working with multiboots on multiple drives especially with 7! For the next person they may only have one drive to work with along with the need to preserve the first changing the environment there.

THe circumstances for each individual user will always tend to vary with that simply being one example. Once you help someone become a better problem solver they can then turn around at some point later and actually discover something previous missed! "gee? how did he find that one when we didn't?"

DarkDavil · 22 Aug 2009

Lol ^^ The end is for all pro's discussing :P But i agree with you, now, i can go and help some-other people/person if they have my same problem :P

Dave76 · 22 Aug 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Night Hawk

You got that right on the spot! SIW2

The help we can offer is simply part of a learning process for anyone new. Just because "we" can do something faster "we" don't go around critising someone simply because they don't have that amount of experience! They might just turn around and end up showing "us" something "we" DIDN'T know!

Very well said, "we" can all learn something from anyone!

Learning and teaching roles often get reversed.

CGA1 · 25 Aug 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Dave76

The currently booted OS will show that it is the "System Boot and Pagefile.. etc. etc.", thats Vista now, when you boot into Windows 7 it will then show it's drive as "System Boot and Pagefile.. etc. etc.". Windows 7 will call itself drive C: also. At least it does on mine.

This has no effect as to where the partition is physically on Disk0. That will not change.

Actually haven't tried this on Windows 7, but previous windows including Vista, Disk management will not 'extend' a partition to the left, only to the right. This is why X: won't go to the left. As far as I could tell, MS disk management is restricted due to anti-trust suits.

Try Partition Wizard Home Edition from this site:

FREE Great Programs for Window 7

Works on 32 and 64 bit and Windows 7. I used it to move my OS partitions and it worked flawlessly.
Be sure to backup everything first. Acronis is the best, but several 'free' programs work very well, DiscWizard from Seagate (if you have a seagate HD and is a limited functionality version of Acronis), Macrium reflect, Paragon is said to be good also.

Download some of the help and how to info from the Partition Wizard home page. It will explain everything.
It's quite easy to run. You can select the moves you want to do, see what they will look like, then close all open programs except Partition Wizard, and then click "Apply" and it will shut down your OS and preform the changes and restart your OS, complete them and it's done.

Good luck,
Dave

Very nice find, this one succeeded for me where others failed, thanks alot.

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