Partition or Volume - Extend

Brink said:

MzTearyuz,

In that case, this workaround should be able to work for you:

• On Disk 1, create a new partition with the 1450.80 GB of unallocated space.
• Copy the contents from Z: to the new partition just created.
• Delete the Z: partition until it shows as unallocated space.
• Extend the new partition into the now unallocated space to have it all in the new partition now.

I like your style Brink, I shall report shortly with my findings, btw the transfer of files for me is pretty slow from partition to partition, last time it maxed out at like 32mbs, is that normal?

MzTearyuz said:

Hi, resize doenst work in either program because its a demo only.

And i cant use the other drive because it is full.

The free version of PW certainly does support resize. I and others use it. The free version lacks some of the features of the paid version but it is not a demo.
Maybe there is something different about your problem we don't understand.
However, if an alternate method does the job that's the main thing.

It worked, thanks!

Brink said:

MzTearyuz,

That's a bit slow from a internal SATA HDD to another internal SATA HDD. Check in your BIOS to see if you have AHCI enabled or not instead of IDE, but do not change this setting. If not, then create a new thread on this, and we'll be happy to help. :)

It wasn't from internal SATA HDD to another internal SATA HDD it was from one partition of a SATA HDD to another partition on the same HDD, I am now transferring HDD to HDD and am getting 80mbs, I think that is normal right? Maybe when its partition to partition on the same HDD its half the speed.

Hello Brick, I have tried everything but nothing worked, I had 4 partitions, I had deleted the 2 partitions, I want to increase the size of the C drive, I have attached the image of disk management.
Thanks

You cannot extend your C: partition as long as another partition (in this case D:) is in the way...it's that simple. You must somehow remove or shrink D: first (and move it to the right, i.e. shrinking it from right to left won't help).

Hi. I want to extend my D volume. I have shrank 20 gb from my C volume on which Windows 7 is installed. It is listed as unallocated space.

Now it looks like this;

C, unallocated space (20 gb), D

I have tried "method 2" from the tutorial but it gave an error. It said something like "virtual disk device doesn't have enough memory to perform this operation."

Then I tried two different software (Minitool Partition Wizard, both free home and professional demo, and Paragon Partition Manager 11 Free) extend D with aforementioned unallocated space. With Paragon I can't select the unallocated space when I try to resize D. Minitool can't merge because the volumes to be merged needs to be in NTFS format. In my case unallocated space isn't formatted. I can't format it in anyway since there are already 3 partitions and 1 extended partition in my HDD. D volume is part of the extended drive.

Is it even possible to add this unallocated space to D?

Btw, I'm doing this on my Windows 7 Home Premium netbook.