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| 24 Oct 2010 | #1 |
| | Extend a partition ? Hi. I want to extend a partition on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit system. The HDD is at 150Gb. I have it at 2 partitions at the present. I shrinked the second partition with 10Gb. How do I extend the first partition C:\ with the 10G's from the second partition D:\ I have attched a view dump from the manage. TIA |
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| 24 Oct 2010 | #2 |
| | Windows native disk management will let you extend a partition only when there is unallocated space IMMEDIATELY to the right of that partition. That is not so in your case, so use partition wizard. Heres a tutorial. Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD |
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| 24 Oct 2010 | #3 |
| | Hi there Using Partition Wizard on the fly doesn't always work -- sometimes you'll get a message - insufficient memory -- and in any case if it DOES get hosed up you've lost data so ALWAYS backup FIRST -- and this is my EASY method. EASY way but you need an external device to save data to or a second internal HDD. 1) create bootable media of "imaging backup software" I use Acronis 2) create bootable media of GPARTED or FREE PARTITION WIZARD -- your choicef Partition wizard -- you can download the Partition wizard .iso file and even make a bootable USB stick of it if you prefer. 3) backup entire disk as an image using something like acronis to an external HDD - use high compression. 4) boot GPARTED / Free partion wizard to re-partition your disk with the sizes you want. 5) boot the backup software media you made in step 1 6) restore partition images you made in step 3 but use the new sizes. Ensure the C partition is set to ACTIVE unless you have the small system partition of 100MB which should be set to active -- if this partition exists then in step 4 you need to make 3 partitions. 7) boot new system -- if it DOES fail -- unlikely but it IS possible just boot the Windows 7 recovery disk and it will fix any boot problems -- you migght have to re-boot 2 or 3 times. I've done this LOADS of times without fail. Cheers jimbo |
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| 24 Oct 2010 | #4 |
| | Many thanks to both of you for valuable suggestions. I will report back, when done the work  |
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