Extending Boot Partition

I have Windows 7 on a Partition with 37.22 GB and Unallocated space with 37.31 GB. I want to extend the Windows 7 Partition to the Unallocated space. Is there any way to extend the current/boot partition? I tried diskpart but obviously that won't work I guess since I read later that you can't do it on the boot partition? Then how else are you supposed to do it?

I have followed that. The partition I want to extend is to the right of the unallocated space and when I right click it, I cannot select extend. I followed the instructions in disk part with the commands and it will not extend.

Hi there
Download GPARTED. It's FREE and works great.
boot from the live cd. Screenshot shown
you can move, re-size, copy. delete create etc partitions at will.
GParted -- Download
Cheers

jimbo

Hi,

You will need a 3rd party partition program.

You could move the partitions to get the unallocated space on the right.


However, I would use the "Copy" function to copy your 7 partition into the unallocated space.

Mark the new partition as Active, then run startup repair ( or the command line, or Easybcd) to make a bcd entry for the new partition.

Reboot - check in Disk Management that it is listed as the "System"partition.

You no longer need the original partition 7 was first installed on - you can delete it and extend the new 7 partition.

You can use the bootable partition manager linked at the top of this tutorial:

Dual Boot using free partitioning software - Vista Forums

Hope it helps

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
Download GPARTED. It's FREE and works great.
boot from the live cd. Screenshot shown
you can move, re-size, copy. delete create etc partitions at will.
GParted -- Download
Cheers

jimbo

Definitely recommend using GPARTED, I used this as my first time in creating a new partition to install Windows 7 on and it was all pretty straight forward and worked without a hitch.

i used partizionwizard and worked like a charm...
its a free program