Expanding partition into free space - but it's not letting me?

Partition Wizard Bootable Flash Drive - Boot from USB Flash disk directly.

That about sums up the failed procedure I used. I'll ask a friend if he's got a spare disc.

glyxom said:

That about sums up the failed procedure I used. I'll ask a friend if he's got a spare disc.

I forgot to note that this was in reference to creating the USB Partition Wizard boot disk using the diskpart command line interface, not the whole expansion procedure itself.

I ended up passing out last night and never got a chance to acquire a blank CD from my friend, who got in later than when I fell asleep, but word has it that he has "tons" of them, so I'm going to try again later today when he's back from work.

For your interest and curiosity, I have attached an image of what Ubuntu's gparted utility looks like, which as you can see shows the same configuration of partitions and free space (which it considers "unallocated"). It will also not let me expand the partition into that free space, particularly because this Ubuntu is running directly from my hard drive as opposed to being the "live" USB stick version.

Updates cannot come now but they will be forthcoming once the stars align.

Is there a chance I could back up my current Windows partition, delete it, then use that roughly 500 GB of free space to create a new NTFS partition and upload my backed-up data onto that partition? Or just somehow unassign that space from the Linux partition using Partition Wizard or a Ubuntu Live gparted session?

My guess is no to both questions, but I'm still welcoming your input.

Please post back a screenshot of Partition Wizard maximized drive map with listings. Tell us exactly what you want to do.