Extending Boot Partition

[vintagesierra]

I have Windows 7 on a Partition with 37.22 GB and Unallocated space with 37.31 GB. I want to extend the Windows 7 Partition to the Unallocated space. Is there any way to extend the current/boot partition? I tried diskpart but obviously that won't work I guess since I read later that you can't do it on the boot partition? Then how else are you supposed to do it?

 

[myzr7]

I have Windows 7 on a Partition with 37.22 GB and Unallocated space with 37.31 GB. I want to extend the Windows 7 Partition to the Unallocated space. Is there any way to extend the current/boot partition? I tried diskpart but obviously that won't work I guess since I read later that you can't do it on the boot partition? Then how else are you supposed to do it?

Hello Welcome to SevenForums
A SevenForums tutorial may help you with that try looking here
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2670-partition-volume-extend.html

 

[vintagesierra]

I have followed that. The partition I want to extend is to the right of the unallocated space and when I right click it, I cannot select extend. I followed the instructions in disk part with the commands and it will not extend.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
Download GPARTED. It's FREE and works great.
boot from the live cd. Screenshot shown
you can move, re-size, copy. delete create etc partitions at will.
GParted -- Download
Cheers

jimbo

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

You will need a 3rd party partition program.

You could move the partitions to get the unallocated space on the right.


However, I would use the "Copy" function to copy your 7 partition into the unallocated space.

Mark the new partition as Active, then run startup repair ( or the command line, or Easybcd) to make a bcd entry for the new partition.

Reboot - check in Disk Management that it is listed as the "System"partition.

You no longer need the original partition 7 was first installed on - you can delete it and extend the new 7 partition.

You can use the bootable partition manager linked at the top of this tutorial:

Dual Boot using free partitioning software - Vista Forums

Hope it helps

 

[Jdz]

Hi there
Download GPARTED. It's FREE and works great.
boot from the live cd. Screenshot shown
you can move, re-size, copy. delete create etc partitions at will.
GParted -- Download
Cheers

jimbo

Definitely recommend using GPARTED, I used this as my first time in creating a new partition to install Windows 7 on and it was all pretty straight forward and worked without a hitch.

 

[locoelbario]

i used partizionwizard and worked like a charm...
its a free program