Extending my Windows 7 Partition

[Night Hawk]

Great! Just Remember to schedule the checkdisk utility with the repair switch "chkdsk /r" typed in at the command prompt to run on the next startup. That will insure the resizing seen there has maintained it's integrity.

 

[Dave76]

Hah yea Once again Thank You all

Your welcome,

Glad I could be of some help!

Dave

 

[chev65]

In the amount of time this thread took I could have installed Win7 30 times and also created and extended about a thousand partitions. Sometimes it's faster and easier to just start from scratch.

 

[SIW2]

True, but the OP has learned something about moving/merging partitions - and got suggestions for some great free apps.

 

[Night Hawk]

You got that right on the spot! SIW2

The help we can offer is simply part of a learning process for anyone new. Just because "we" can do something faster "we" don't go around critising someone simply because they don't have that amount of experience! They might just turn around and end up showing "us" something "we" DIDN'T know!

 

[iseeuu]

You got that right on the spot! SIW2

The help we can offer is simply part of a learning process for anyone new. Just because "we" can do something faster "we" don't go around critising someone simply because they don't have that amount of experience! They might just turn around and end up showing "us" something "we" DIDN'T know!

Well put Night Hawk, I totally agree.

What was it Sato said at the end of Karate Kid II? "Your student has become my teacha." (Sorry, I am an incurable movie buff)

 

[Night Hawk]

It went something like that! I caught all three of those as well as some other oldies!

Otten here when planning a dual boot if the first is shrunk down I simply nuke the second primary and create the new larger one for a clean install there. But I've also spent a great of time working with multiboots on multiple drives especially with 7! For the next person they may only have one drive to work with along with the need to preserve the first changing the environment there.

THe circumstances for each individual user will always tend to vary with that simply being one example. Once you help someone become a better problem solver they can then turn around at some point later and actually discover something previous missed! "gee? how did he find that one when we didn't?"

 

[DarkDavil]

Lol ^^ The end is for all pro's discussing But i agree with you, now, i can go and help some-other people/person if they have my same problem

 

[Dave76]

You got that right on the spot! SIW2

The help we can offer is simply part of a learning process for anyone new. Just because "we" can do something faster "we" don't go around critising someone simply because they don't have that amount of experience! They might just turn around and end up showing "us" something "we" DIDN'T know!

Very well said, "we" can all learn something from anyone!

Learning and teaching roles often get reversed.

 

[CGA1]

The currently booted OS will show that it is the "System Boot and Pagefile.. etc. etc.", thats Vista now, when you boot into win7 it will then show it's drive as "System Boot and Pagefile.. etc. etc.". Win7 will call itself drive C: also. At least it does on mine.

This has no effect as to where the partition is physically on Disk0. That will not change.

Actually haven't tried this on Win7, but previous windows including Vista, Disk management will not 'extend' a partition to the left, only to the right. This is why X: won't go to the left. As far as I could tell, MS disk management is restricted due to anti-trust suits.

Try Partition Wizard Home Edition from this site:

FREE Great Programs for Window 7

Works on 32 and 64 bit and Win7. I used it to move my OS partitions and it worked flawlessly.
Be sure to backup everything first. Acronis is the best, but several 'free' programs work very well, DiscWizard from Seagate (if you have a seagate HD and is a limited functionality version of Acronis), Macrium reflect, Paragon is said to be good also.

Download some of the help and how to info from the Partition Wizard home page. It will explain everything.
It's quite easy to run. You can select the moves you want to do, see what they will look like, then close all open programs except Partition Wizard, and then click "Apply" and it will shut down your OS and preform the changes and restart your OS, complete them and it's done.

Good luck,
Dave

Very nice find, this one succeeded for me where others failed, thanks alot.

 

[SIW2]

Hi CGA1,

I have been recommending Partition Wizard for some time.

Not as complete as the Paragon PM PRO I normally use, but it's great for a freebie.

Partition Wizard doesn't come with a boot disc, sadly - but can do most things by flipping itself into "boot - time " mode.

The other thing to watch out for is that it calls Boot and System partitions the wrong way round - strangely.

It seems to be using Linux speak, instead of Windows - odd as it is only a Windows app.Not a problem in itself, but can be confusing for some.



In the screenie, it says Disk1 - that should be Disk 0

C is shown as Active & Boot - it should be Active & System

D is shown as System - it should be Boot.

 

[SIW2]

HI Dave 76,

How did you manage that?

I always "doctor" my installs , so I can switch System partitions - but I need to hand the Active flag across to do it.

Just booting normally you will always have the 1 same System partition. The Boot partition will change , of course.

The currently booted OS will show that it is the "System Boot and Pagefile.. etc. etc.", thats Vista now, when you boot into win7 it will then show it's drive as "System Boot and Pagefile.. etc. etc.". Win7 will call itself drive C: also. At least it does on mine.
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Good luck,
Dave

 

[Night Hawk]

Hi CGA1,

I have been recommending Partition Wizard for some time.

Not as complete as the Paragon PM PRO I normally use, but it's great for a freebie.

Partition Wizard doesn't come with a boot disc, sadly - but can do most things by flipping itself into "boot - time " mode.

The other thing to watch out for is that it calls Boot and System partitions the wrong way round - strangely.

It seems to be using Linux speak, instead of Windows - odd as it is only a Windows app.Not a problem in itself, but can be confusing for some.

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In the screenie, it says Disk1 - that should be Disk 0

C is shown as Active & Boot - it should be Active & System

D is shown as System - it should be Boot.

I've run into that one with a few different programs that appear to use the Linux method while being a little confusing at times. That's one of the main reasons you'll see recommend GParted as the Linux option since that will plainly display the sdoa or HDoa in that manner showing the first drive and partitions in plain view.

Likewise you still need to burn a live cd or create a usb key for that as well.

 

[Dave76]

Very nice find, this one succeeded for me where others failed, thanks alot.

Your welcome.
Glad it helped you.

 

[Dave76]

HI Dave 76,

How did you manage that?

I always "doctor" my installs , so I can switch System partitions - but I need to hand the Active flag across to do it.

Just booting normally you will always have the 1 same System partition. The Boot partition will change , of course.

Your right!
The 'System' and 'Active' will always stay with the first OS installed, as you said there is a way to change it but I haven't tried that one.
Only the Boot, Page file and Crash dump, change with the booted OS.
Slight error on my part, the OP was just concerned that his newly installed OS might not work and I remembered that some of the status designations change with the currently booted OS.

What's the advantage of 'handing the active flag across'?
Hopefully I haven't missed something important!

Regards,
Dave