How can i extend my primary partition?

[beckhamstef]

Well, it's all in the title . How can i extend it? It seems i can extend only my secondary one. I must not be getting something... Help!

 

[Airbot]

You might want to check out Brinks tutorials on deleting and extending a partition.
Disk Management - Delete and Extend - Vista Forums
Disk Management - Shrink Partition - Vista Forums

 

[garysgold]

Hello beckhamstef,

In addition to what Airbot has posted you might want to take a look at this thread. http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/1822-resizing-new-partition.html

This caused me problems as you will see. I had to reinstall the OS so just did the resize then, but the best bet is third party partitioning software. There is a basic free program listed there (third post). This is the only way to do it if you have data on the partition to the right of the partition you want to extend.

Hope this helps.

Gary

 

[beckhamstef]

I've got it on x64... Can you suggest another freeware partitioning program that won't delete my data?

 

[garysgold]

I think they have a 30 day trial for the 64 bit supported. Most 32 bit software will work on 64 bit though. You should have good backups of your data before doing something like this anyway. Especially for the first time.

Gary

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management window?

Also The Easeus Partition Manager Pro trial version doesn't allow batch operations - which I suspect is what you need to do.

SIW2

 

[beckhamstef]

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I want to extend my C to 30-35.

 

[limneos]

At first you should "shrink" D:, so that there's free space left.
Then , you will have the option to Extend C:, provided that the file system on both is NTFS.

I'm not sure you can shrink the logical partition and get free space on the left, though. Give it a try

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

I don't believe Disk Management will allow you to extend or shrink an Extended partition ( the green rectangle ).

Unless you want to delete the Extended partition, you may need to use a 3rd party app. like Paragon Partition Manager , to convert it into a Primary partition.



SIW2

 

[garysgold]

Hi limneos,

After shrinking the unallocated space, it is to the right of the D partition as the 9 mb unallocated space is now on his disk. Still can't extend the C partition to that. According to the help files you would only be able to create a 'spanned volume'. I suppose you could create another partition out of the unallocated space, move all your files to that partition and the delete the D partition to create unallocated space next to the C partition and then extend. This is how I understand it. If I'm not understanding right please explain.

Thanks,
Gary

Edit: I just successfully shrunk a logical partition.

 

[beckhamstef]

I've tried it before, this is what happens... Gary's right.
Can you please tell me a free partitioning application for x64?

http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=21411511cg3.jpg

 

[limneos]

that was mostly by concern, that the free space would be to the right...

Either he converts to primary, or not...

As for the logical, yes it wouldn't have any reason to not shrink. On the contrary, so my bad.

So still he has to free some space by shrinking D:

A third party app like paragon, gparted or acronis might move the unused space to the left so he could resize ...but since he's got about 85GB in use in that partition, that would take a loooong time to complete.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Afaik, there is no way of extending/shrinking the Extended partition - you can do that with any logical partitions inside the green rectangle, but not the green rectangle itself.

You can see from your screenshot it shrinks within the green rectangle -and also on the right-neither of which you want.

Unless there is a way I am unaware of , you would either need to delete it- or convert it to Primary , which requires a 3rd party app.

Unless the DiskPart can do it - but I don't think so - at least not without detroying the data on it.


SIW2

 

[limneos]

If you can burn a CD from an ISO download, you could try Gparted.

GParted -- Welcome

 

[garysgold]

Sorry, but I haven't come across any free x64 partitioning apps.

Diskpart would be used to create a 'spanned volume' according to the help files.

Gary

 

[garysgold]

I was able to shrink both D and E. One is logical the other is primary. I extended them both back to the original so don't have a pic of the unallocated spaces, but it worked.



I can't add them to V or G because they are not side by side, so no real help.


Gary

 

[beckhamstef]

Thanks for all your help (attempts ). Really, thanks!

 

[SIW2]

Hi Gary,

What app. did you use to shrink the Extended partition.

Was it the logical partition within the Extended partition that shrank, or was it the entire green rectangle - the Extended partition itself.

SIW2

 

[SIW2]

Hi beckhamstef,

GParted is good - you boot in from the Live cd to perform the partitioning operations.

I have never tried to do that with it, but it's worth a go - as it's free.

Here is a tutuorial to give you some idea of how it works

Using GParted to Resize Your Windows Vista Partition :: the How-To Geek

This is the version of Gparted I have used - direct d/l

SourceForge.net: GParted: Downloading ...

Here's the direct d/l for a tiny free isoburner - works great , just runs straight away - I use to burn iso to cd all the time

http://www.ntfs.com/downloads/Iso-burner.zip


You might have a look at this

Managing Partitions DOS software for Vista x64 - Vista Forums

Hope it helps

SIW2

 

[garysgold]

Hi SIW2,

I did it from within 'disk management' and it resized the entire partition. I believe this would have given me the option of creating another partition within the extended partition. You can have 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 extended per hard drive. You can create more than 1 partition in the extended partition, so that is a way to get around the 4 partition limit if you so desire. You probably know that, but for others more info here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html

Gary