Expanding my partition?


  1. lister
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    Expanding my partition?


    Hi I have a dual boot system, windows 7 and ubuntu linux.

    The windows partition is really outgrowing its living space - can I increase this without upsetting the balance of the set-up?

    Thanks!
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  3. Bare Foot Kid
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    Hello lister, welcome to Seven Forums!



    That depends, are you using Grub and which OS was installed first?
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  4. Arc
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    lister said:
    Hi I have a dual boot system, windows 7 and ubuntu linux.

    The windows partition is really outgrowing its living space - can I increase this without upsetting the balance of the set-up?

    Thanks!
    You may try the Free Download Partition Wizard . boot in PW, try to expand the win7 partition.

    But have a second thought before doing it. As it is a primary active partition having boot flag, expanding may harm the bootloader. Though a Startup Repair will solve the windows bootloader, I am not sure about grub (perhaps you may have to update grub to get linux back in dual boot menu).
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