Windows 7: How to extend an Extended Partition; leave logical volumes intact

Thanks much, SIW2. And yes, I think what happened the last time I tried this with my older V570 is that I got confused between the logical D drive inside, and the extended partition that was housing it, and that's where things went south. And JUST to be sure, since in your photo examples you were choosing a primary partition on which to work, and not an extended partition -- it won't make any difference in Paragon whether it's an extended partition or a primary partition in order to make the change, AND...it will keep the "D" logical drive intact, correct?

Like I said...

If you look at my pics - C is Primary, D is inside an extended. Quite similar to yours.

Anyway ,

Yes, you will be fine.

Hmmmmmmmm....it looks like D & E are inside an extended partition, but they both have the dark blue color which usually means primary, vs the green which usually means logical.

I'll give it a shot and report back. It might be a day or so, but I'll definitely update on the results. Thanks again.

You're welcome.

The dark blue indicates NTFS - a file system - not a partition type.

I think your Paragon will look similar. MS Diskmgt has a slightly different legend.

Hey the last sentence was added later, I think. GParted can be downloaded from
GParted -- About or more specifically from
GParted -- Download

Best is to download from sourceforge.net anyhow. There could be other sites offering to download GParted but I would not trust them.

The latest Live CD/USB version is: gparted-live-0.14.1-6-i486.iso

If booting from a CD is too slow, as was in my case, you could boot GParted from an USB flash drive.

GParted offers particular flexibility like shifting the end-cap of a partition into unallocated area and reclaim only partially some of that unallocated area while leaving the rest of that unallocated area for other future use.

I am not sure if Paragon and PW can do the same, it could be they just snap up all the unallocated area, leaving you with no unallocated area left.

j

Both PW and Paragon let you select how big the partition is - the rest remains unallocated - so you can make another , and so on. I think they all do that.

Ok thanks for the info SIW2. Looks like Paragon and PW have improved their products a lot in just a year time. PW even has a freeware version. BTW, what is the exact product name and version from which you took the screen shots in #37?
j

LOL. That's hysterical. I'm working with Paragon now and have everything just about done thanks to your help. I JUST noticed that the blue inside, according to Paragon's legend, means NTFS, and I was about to post when I read yours. Thanks a million, man!! I really appreciate it. And once I reboot and make sure everything is working the way it should, I'll post on the Lenovo Community forum and let them know that there is finally a solution to this most annoying problem. I do want to point out that it's a bit tricky when selecting the extended partition vs the logical D drive inside it. One time I almost blew it. Initially I'd clicked the partition, but when it came time to right click and resize, I accidentally must have touched the Logical D drive my mistake. I saw Lenovo D come up instead of Extended Partition, so I went back and re-did it. Now everything is almost done; I just need to create the last logical drive and I'll be finished.

And here we have it...the NEW partitioning of the HDD: