Help with Extending Volume in Windows 7

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  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
       #1

    Help with Extending Volume in Windows 7


    Please see the attached screenshot that shows the partitions of my disk. I have just installed Windows 7 on the partition labeled C:. I would like to extend this volume by merging the 99.74GB C: partition with the 10.0GB "unallocated" partition that is the left. I have just learned that the Disk Management doesn't allow me to do this . How would be the best way to do this without having to reinstall the OS and applications?

    OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
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  2. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #2

    Disk management will not extend a partition to the left, only to the right. To do what you want, you will need to use free Partition Wizard. The Partition Wizard tutorial will explain.
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  3. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #3

    Good practice would suggest that you image the partitions before you manipulate them with Partition Wizard. I got bit once and lost all my partitions using PW which I am familiar with (just a small little mistake did it) - but I had images. So it was no big deal.
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  4. Posts : 4,049
    W7 Ultimate SP1, LM19.2 MATE, W10 Home 1703, W10 Pro 1703 VM, #All 64 bit
       #4

    Agreed


    whs said:
    Good practice would suggest that you image the partitions before you manipulate them with Partition Wizard. I got bit once and lost all my partitions using PW which I am familiar with (just a small little mistake did it) - but I had images. So it was no big deal.
    You should probably image the whole HDD.

    When I tried to resize and move my W7 partition (in 2010) I managed to screw it up and I ended up having to reinstall it (XP and Ubuntu too).
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  5. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #5

    Are you all POSITIVE the FREE partition wizard will do this ? I thought only diskpart would merge space from the left of C:
    If you just installed 7, in my opinion it would be much easier and faster just to reinstall and make your partition the size you want this time.

    I know you need Pro to merge partitions, correct ?
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  6. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #6

    AddRAM said:
    Are you all POSITIVE the FREE partition wizard will do this ? I thought only diskpart would merge space from the left of C:
    If you just installed 7, in my opinion it would be much easier and faster just to reinstall and make your partition the size you want this time.
    Yes, Partition Wizard does the job quite nicely - if you make no mistake. I have just used it a couple of days ago for the same purpose.

    But a reinstall is the worst option. The better alternative would be to image C, delete the C partition and redefine a bigger partition in the merged unallocated space. Then dump the image back in.
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  7. Posts : 1,167
    Windows 7 Pro with SP1 32bit
       #7

    Could be quite easily done without losing any data with a good partitioning software using it's boot disk. You could use Acronis Disk Director Suite Boot Disk which is my favourite or Free Partition Wizard Boot Disk that almost all in this Forum prefer.
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  8. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #8

    yellowjacket03 said:
    Please see the attached screenshot that shows the partitions of my disk. I have just installed Windows 7 on the partition labeled C:. I would like to extend this volume by merging the 99.74GB C: partition with the 10.0GB "unallocated" partition that is the left. I have just learned that the Disk Management doesn't allow me to do this . How would be the best way to do this without having to reinstall the OS and applications?

    OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
    1st question, where are you going to store your disc image ?
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  9. Posts : 1,167
    Windows 7 Pro with SP1 32bit
       #9

    That may depend on the imaging software used. Acronis TrueImage permits you to store the disk image on another partition/drive if one exists as a .tib file, or if you like it would create an Acronis Safe Zone special partition for you in which to store the image.

    I have not used any other partitioning software.


    AddRAM said:
    yellowjacket03 said:
    Please see the attached screenshot that shows the partitions of my disk. I have just installed Windows 7 on the partition labeled C:. I would like to extend this volume by merging the 99.74GB C: partition with the 10.0GB "unallocated" partition that is the left. I have just learned that the Disk Management doesn't allow me to do this . How would be the best way to do this without having to reinstall the OS and applications?

    OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
    1st question, where are you going to store your disc image ?
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  10. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #10

    I was asking Yellowjacket specificly, where he was going to put an image.
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