Partition or Volume - Extend

eilhart said:

Hi. I want to extend my D volume. I have shrank 20 gb from my C volume on which Windows 7 is installed. It is listed as unallocated space.

Now it looks like this;

C, unallocated space (20 gb), D

I have tried "method 2" from the tutorial but it gave an error. It said something like "virtual disk device doesn't have enough memory to perform this operation."

Then I tried two different software (Minitool Partition Wizard, both free home and professional demo, and Paragon Partition Manager 11 Free) extend D with aforementioned unallocated space. With Paragon I can't select the unallocated space when I try to resize D. Minitool can't merge because the volumes to be merged needs to be in NTFS format. In my case unallocated space isn't formatted. I can't format it in anyway since there are already 3 partitions and 1 extended partition in my HDD. D volume is part of the extended drive.

Is it even possible to add this unallocated space to D?

Btw, I'm doing this on my Windows 7 Home Premium netbook.

Hello Eilhart,

Could you post a screenshot of Disk Management showing all of your HDD's layout? This will give us a better understanding of what your options may be.

For now, it appears that you may need to delete D: to be able to have it merged with the unallocated space to the left of it since the unallocated space is not to the right of D: , then create a new partition with the merged unallocated space afterwards.

Eilhart,

With Ubuntu in the mix, I'm not sure how this may work if at all. However, you could try using either the "Bootable CD/DVD" or "Bootable USB flash drive" option with Partition Wizard to try and extend/move D: into the unallocated space.

If you get any type of message to convert to a dynamic disk during this, be sure to say NO.

Worst case, you most likely will not be able to, but you should still be able to extend C: back into the unallocated space to add it back to C: .

Hello Pootklopp, and welcome to Seven Forums.

10GB would not be large enough to keep system image backups on since your Windows 7 partition is using much more than that space already.

If you like you could use the free Partition Wizard program to drag/move the C: partition into the 10GB unallocated space to add it back to the C: drive.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

After you download and install the free version at the link above, you would just run the program and drag the C: drive into the unallocated space. :)

pootklopp said:

how do I do that, do I have to use the payed version? I am new to the all this and do not want to mess anything up haha

This Seven Forums tutorial: Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD will help explain how to do this, look at Option Three: Shrink the Left Side of a Windows Partition.

It is the same procedure to shrink or extend. Just move the sliding boundary the other way.