Expanding my partition?

[lister]

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!

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello lister, welcome to Seven Forums!



That depends, are you using Grub and which OS was installed first?

 

[Arc]

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 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html 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).