Partition question...

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I have a 100gig drive i separated into two 50gig partitions a good while
back. I want to combine them again and Partition Magic won't join them.
Any idea if Vista's Disk Management has been updated to handle this? Or
should I just wait till Windows Vienna comes out in 2010? :0)
 
n00k:
With Vista Disk management if Vista is on the first partition you should
be able to delete the second partition then extend the first partition. Have
a great day.
 
Disk Management can't join partitions. I have used Acronis Disk Director to
do this, from the Acronis boot CD.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Vista does not allow the creation of an extended volume/partition. You will
need 3rd party software to do this.
 
Hi, Richard.

In Vista, we can use the DiskPart.exe shell to create an "extended
partition", and to create one or more logical drives within that extended
partition. But DiskPart is a very powerful tool with commands about as
clear and straightforward as BCDedit.exe (!) so I don't recommend it in
newsgroups often.

After creating the first 3 partitions as Primary Partitions, Disk Management
will create the 4th one as a logical drive within a new,
automatically-created extended partition.

Extended partitions did not die in Vista, but the method of creating and
managing them did. And there is almost no help at all for them in the Disk
Management Help file. :>(

Note that there is a very distinct and significant difference between
"extending a partition" and an "extended partition"! The first means to
enlarge an existing volume - either a primary partition or a logical drive.
The second means to create a partition that is not a primary partition; an
extended partition cannot be formatted or assigned a "drive" letter, but one
or more logical drives may be created in the extended partition and each of
these can be separately assigned a letter and formatted.

(I know that you know that, Richard, but others reading along here may not.)

RC
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illiteraturekid said:
I tried using Diskpart.exe, but when I entered the extend command, I got
a response that said there was no free space for the partition to extend
to, even though there was 15 GBs.

I have gparted on a disk, but I can't figure out how to boot it. All I
have are a bunch of files that my computer can't open on a disk. How
does one boot these?
Click to expand...

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
 
Robin said:
Try Parted Magic (Google). It's a suite with a nice GUI. It includes
gparted, and is nicer and easier to use than plain gparted. You
shouldn't have booting issues with Parted Magic.
Click to expand...

A post by Dave, below, made me wonder. You do realise this is a boot
disk? You put it in your CD drive and reboot. If the PC boots normally
(and not from the CD) you need to change the boot sequence in your BIOS.
 
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