Extend Partition to the left

[BFG]

I have a bunch of unallocated space at the front of the drive after deleting my previous operating systems and I would like to expand my win 7 partition into that.

I'm looking for advice and instructions on the best way to do that.

Had I known I wouldn't need my vista partition I would've deleted that first and install 7 in the front, but oh well.

I already tried making a copy of my 7 partition in the front, but I didn't really like how that went.

I went into the original partition and added the copy into the bootloader but when I went into it the copy was not being recognized as the system drive.

Also my computer is running really slow after trying all that

I have EASUS Partition master BTW

 

[pparks1]

I used gparted which is a freedownload to shift my partition to the left and then grow it into the free space on the right.

 

[BFG]

I used gparted which is a freedownload to shift my partition to the left and then grow it into the free space on the right.

Will I have to repair the MBR?

About how long will that take?

Is it quicker to simply move it first versus resizing and moving at the same time?

 

[smarteyeball]

Depending on how much data you have on that drive, it could take quite some time.

 

[BFG]

EASUS moved the partition to the front of the drive and booted up windows again in under 20 minutes

 

[Taskin]

well i also tried to use Easeus program to partition my 1tb disk, but it crashes, now i am looking for other solutions for this

 

[2Cold Scorpio]

I've been using Acronis Disk Director for this type of thing for a coupleo f years now and it works great. It isn't free, though.