How do I extend my HD partition using redunded 27gb partition

Hi, some help required please, I have trawled the forums but cannot find anything that clearly answer my problem - so here goes

I have a new Acer Revo RL70 nettop, which I am using mainly for XBMC for my movies and music and some web surfing etc.

It came with a version of linux installed, with the hard drive partitioned as follows

27gb for Linux (operating system) there was also a 2gb partition within that which I think was the recovery partition for Linux

The remainder of the drive (750gb) was another partition
I believe thats how the hard drive was configured by Acer, but I did not do a check on that before I installed windows 7 onto it.

I installed windows 7 ultimate onto the drive, which boots perfectly and runs well, it shows a 100mb recovery in the main partition (C drive) as normal with windows.

After running my RL70 for a few weeks and loading it with my films etc, I checked the hard drive structure and noticed the 27gb partition, and thought that would be better use for my films etc. I did think that installing windows 7 would have cleared the partition as it gave me the option to install into that partition, which I chose not to do.

So now when I try to remove or merge or extend the partition (see screen shot) it will not allow me to do it.

Can anyone here please help.

Many thanks Graham

Hi Bare foot kid
Thanks for your quick reply

Here is the screen shot you ask for below


Thanks for your help, I may be off line for a bit but I will be back as soon as I can today

Cheers

PS... I am now using windows 7, The screen shot shows everything I believe

The Linux partition is empty, I deleted the contents of that partition = 27gb (26.96gb) 100% free space, as confirmed by my screen shot in my second post.

I will look at the link you provided to see if I can sort it out, but I do tend to get a bit lost by some of the "how too" help pages - its an age thing lol

If D is empty, the typical method would be to delete it and then use Partition Wizard bootable disk to reassign that 27 GB to C.

You can likely delete D with Windows Disk Management, but would need Partition Wizard to reassign the space---so you may as well use PW for both tasks.

I notice the small partition (system reserved 100mb) center one on my screen shot is listed as active, not the main C: drive section, so would I still have to mark the C: partition as active before doing anything else.

graham35 said:

I notice the small partition (system reserved 100mb) center one on my screen shot is listed as active, not the main C: drive section, so would I still have to mark the C: partition as active before doing anything else.

No. System Reserved should be active.