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Expanding partition into free space - but it's not letting me?
In a stroke of genuine, so-real-it's-true, lovingly human idiocy, I allotted myself a measly 50 GB for my Windows installation and program files! Naturally I wanted to extend this, but right ahead of the Windows partition on the drive was an Ubuntu install which took up the entire rest of the drive.
So I set to work, spending over four hours for gparted running from an Ubuntu Live session to shrink the Ubuntu volume to about half the entire size of the disk, then moving it to the end of the disk so that I might have some room to extend the partition. And, lo and behold, it still would not let me expand the Windows part! The listed maximum of 50 GB refuses to budge.
I am pretty good with computing, but partition management is beyond the end of my wits. Can you tell me how to resolve this problem? I'll pay you with hearty thanks!