Moving free space from one extended partition to the Vista partition

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Gordon

seeing lots of conflicting advice and problems with this.
I have C: partition (Boot, Windows etc) and E: partition (data). I need to
move free space from E to C.
What is the consensus of opinion on here as to the best way to do this?
 
Hi Gordon,

Are the two volumes contiguous? They must be next to each other as shown in
disk manager to do this. First you would shrink E:, then slide it so that
the free space is immediately behind C:. You would then expand C: to
encompass the free space. While you can do the shrinking and expanding with
Vista's disk manager, the slide operation has to be done with a third party
drive tool like BootitNG or Acronis' disk manager.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Rick Rogers said:
Hi Gordon,

Are the two volumes contiguous? They must be next to each other as shown
in disk manager to do this. First you would shrink E:, then slide it so
that the free space is immediately behind C:. You would then expand C: to
encompass the free space. While you can do the shrinking and expanding
with Vista's disk manager, the slide operation has to be done with a third
party drive tool like BootitNG or Acronis' disk manager.
Click to expand...

Thanks for that - I sorted it this way:
Copied all the data from E to an external HDD. Removed E partition in Disk
manager. Re-sized C partition, re-created E partition. Copied data back to
E.
Job done!
 
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