Extending partitioned drives

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Shane

Hi all
Can anyone help me?
I have a 250 gig hard drive
sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra space
to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines how to
extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot drive cannot
be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot drive and start
again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm running vista home
premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS

All advice would be appreciated

cheers in advance

Shane
 
Hi all
Can anyone help me?
I have a 250 gig hard drive
sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra
space to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines
how to extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot
drive cannot be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot
drive and start again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm
running vista home premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS

All advice would be appreciated

cheers in advance

Shane
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Suggest you boot the gparted Live CD and do what you want. It's quite
simple and all graphical.
 
Shane said:
Hi all
Can anyone help me?
I have a 250 gig hard drive
sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra
space to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines
how to extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot
drive cannot be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot drive
and start again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm running
vista home premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS

All advice would be appreciated

cheers in advance

Shane
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The issue with extending the system partition is that if the space you want
to extend it to isn't physically right next to it on the disk, you can't.
You've created three partitions, so you can delete one, and see if you can
then extend the system partition. If you can't, back up the other
partition and delete it, extend the system partition, then re-create the
other partitions as needed.

There are other tools that can extend the partition, but they don't come
with Vista.

HTH
-pk
 
Shane said:
Hi all
Can anyone help me?
I have a 250 gig hard drive
sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra
space to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines
how to extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot
drive cannot be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot drive
and start again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm running
vista home premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS

All advice would be appreciated

cheers in advance

Shane
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Hi all Shane again i've managed to do what i wanted with your help a BIG
THANKS TO ALL i lost a few gigs of memory i don't know why but a message
flashed up on the screen about only being able to use a certain amount as
the drive cannot be up graded from a simple NTFS but i'm willing to put up
with that for the end result i got
thanks again for all the advice
cheers
Shane
 
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