Extend a partition

[Exodus]

Hey guys,

Im looking for a program to extend a partition using free space I have. I used to use a program by Paragon Software on Vista but im not sure if it would work with 7. I dont really wanna risk it considering the drive I want to extend has all my valuable data on so I dont want it to go wrong. It also use to take a really long time.

Does anyone know any other programs which definitely work with 7 and is pretty quick?
Im also running 64-bit if that helps.


Thanks in advance.

 

[zigzag3143]

Hey guys,

Im looking for a program to extend a partition using free space I have. I used to use a program by Paragon Software on Vista but im not sure if it would work with 7. I dont really wanna risk it considering the drive I want to extend has all my valuable data on so I dont want it to go wrong. It also use to take a really long time.

Does anyone know any other programs which definitely work with 7 and is pretty quick?
Im also running 64-bit if that helps.


Thanks in advance.

Hey Exodus

Parigon Disk Suite 2009 is pretty bullet proof. Im not sure they have a 64 bit version but you could check. If you are worried why not back up before.

Ken

 

[MilesAhead]

If you are running W7 then it must be Ultimate. If the free space is directly after the partition in question then Control Panel=>Administrative Tools=>Disk Management should do it. Of course a backup to be safe doesn't hurt.

Right click on the partition you want to extend and it will tell you if it can extend it or not and by how much.

 

[Exodus]

Hey Exodus

Parigon Disk Suite 2009 is pretty bullet proof. Im not sure they have a 64 bit version but you could check. If you are worried why not back up before.

Ken

Alright then, thanks.

+rep btw.

 

[chuckr]

Hey guys,

... considering the drive I want to extend has all my valuable data on ...

You -do- have a verified backup, don't you?

... Just in case...

 

[Exodus]

http://img67.imageshack.us/i/diskmanagement.png/

Thats what my Disk Management looks like, but the Extend option is still greyed out, im not sure how to do it without using 3rd party software.

 

[MilesAhead]

It's way too small for me to see anything in that image.

 

[Exodus]

My bad, I thought image links worked but...

 

[mickey megabyte]

it says 1280x760, but when you click it's still small.

please use the snipping tool and repost!

 

[MilesAhead]

Just upload the image and let the board sw handle it.

 

[Exodus]

Yeah sorry, edited the post.

 

[MilesAhead]

So which partition are you trying to extend? What's on D: Is it the restore partition?

 

[MilesAhead]

At any rate, check out thefreecountry.com: Free Programmers' Resources, Free Webmasters' Resources, Free Security Resources and
Gizmo's Freeware Reviews

for free partition utilities and which OS they work with and what they can do. Chances are there's a Linux boot CD based partition manager that will work provided you don't have an exotic HD setup(such as fake raid)

 

[Exodus]

C:\ is where I keep my OS and programs.
D:\ is where I keep everything else.

All I wanna do is take the free space and add it to D:\

 

[zigzag3143]

C:\ is where I keep my OS and programs.
D:\ is where I keep everything else.

All I wanna do is take the free space and add it to D:\

Exodus

So whats the problem Use parigon disk suite 2009, and you are done

Ken

 

[Exodus]

Yeah thats what im doing now. I just wanted to know if there was a way to do it without 3rd party software as ive read people have done it before but no matter.

Thanks for everyones replies anyway.

 

[Exodus]

Im not able to do this in the latest Paragon Partition Manager (v10) which is pretty annoying.


EDIT:

Wow, I am really impressed. I managed to find out about a program called Partition Wizard Home Edition, its totally free and specifically states it supports Windows 7 so I gave it a try and it completed the resize of the partition in about 2 minutes, it supports 32-bit and 64-bit. If anyone would like to use it then I recommend you do.

Link: http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Im not advertising for them but I was so impressed and surprised.

 

[MilesAhead]

If you aren't able to do something you should in the Disk Management, it may be an indication of a partition table problem. I tried to make a backup capsule using Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 on my Vista64 PC. It has fake raid. Well, after the crash, it told me I could only shrink my C: partition by about 13 GB when it should have been able to shrink by hundreds of GB. I did a backup and restore with Macrium Reflect 4.2 trial and it fixed my partition table. After than I could shrink C: by over 400 GB if I wanted. So I bought Macrium 64 bit edition. Well worth it.

I would investigate partition table repair methods. It's likely there's a problem there.

 

[SIW2]

The Free space is inside an Extended partition ( Green border).

That is very different from a Primary partition ( Blue border )

Free space is unused space inside a partition.

Unallocated space is unused space not inside a partition.

No partition manager will extend a Primary partition directly into an Extended partition. It would need to delete the Extended partition first.

You need to delete the Extended partition ( the green one) - then it will be Unallocated space.

You will then be able extend Primary partition (D ) to incorporate the Unallocated space.

Most partition managers would want you to do that in two steps.

You could have done that with Disk Management.

I have been using the Partition Wizard for some time. It is good , but lacks the more advanced features of the Paragon - particularly the boot disc.

Btw the Paragon apps. support 7x64 perfectly. I use them for most of my hard disk management .

 

[SquonkSC]

Check Gparted. Also x64 version and it's free. Best one I know