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I've tried it before, this is what happens... Gary's right.
Can you please tell me a free partitioning application for x64?
http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?i...1411511cg3.jpg
I've tried it before, this is what happens... Gary's right.
Can you please tell me a free partitioning application for x64?
http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?i...1411511cg3.jpg
that was mostly by concern, that the free space would be to the right...
Either he converts to primary, or not...
As for the logical, yes it wouldn't have any reason to not shrink. On the contrary, so my bad.
So still he has to free some space by shrinking D:
A third party app like paragon, gparted or acronis might move the unused space to the left so he could resize ...but since he's got about 85GB in use in that partition, that would take a loooong time to complete.
Hi,
Afaik, there is no way of extending/shrinking the Extended partition - you can do that with any logical partitions inside the green rectangle, but not the green rectangle itself.
You can see from your screenshot it shrinks within the green rectangle -and also on the right-neither of which you want.
Unless there is a way I am unaware of , you would either need to delete it- or convert it to Primary , which requires a 3rd party app.
Unless the DiskPart can do it - but I don't think so - at least not without detroying the data on it.
SIW2
Sorry, but I haven't come across any free x64 partitioning apps.
Diskpart would be used to create a 'spanned volume' according to the help files.
Gary
Thanks for all your help (attempts :) ). Really, thanks!
Hi Gary,
What app. did you use to shrink the Extended partition.
Was it the logical partition within the Extended partition that shrank, or was it the entire green rectangle - the Extended partition itself.
SIW2
Hi beckhamstef,
GParted is good - you boot in from the Live cd to perform the partitioning operations.
I have never tried to do that with it, but it's worth a go - as it's free.
Here is a tutuorial to give you some idea of how it works
Using GParted to Resize Your Windows Vista Partition :: the How-To Geek
This is the version of Gparted I have used - direct d/l
SourceForge.net: GParted: Downloading ...
Here's the direct d/l for a tiny free isoburner - works great , just runs straight away - I use to burn iso to cd all the time
http://www.ntfs.com/downloads/Iso-burner.zip
You might have a look at this
Managing Partitions DOS software for Vista x64 - Vista Forums
Hope it helps
SIW2
Hi SIW2,
I did it from within 'disk management' and it resized the entire partition. I believe this would have given me the option of creating another partition within the extended partition. You can have 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 extended per hard drive. You can create more than 1 partition in the extended partition, so that is a way to get around the 4 partition limit if you so desire. You probably know that, but for others more info here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...te-extend.html
Gary