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R. C. White
Hi, Vasu.
Like Kevin's, your situation sounds ideal for Extending the volume. But -
Microsoft and I got me confused. ;^{ My prior comments need some
clarification.
Sometimes I forget that I'm in the Win2K newsgroup. I've not used Win2K
since WinXP arrived, but I still read this group often. The two Windows
versions are so similar that most comments on one also apply to the other.
But the method I actually used to Extend my volumes in WinXP was not
available in Win2K.
In Win2K, you should be able to right-click on your Drive E: and choose
Extend from the context menu - after deleting Drives F: and G:, of course,
to create contiguous unallocated space following Drive E:. However, I don't
find Extend on the context menu in Disk Management in my WinXP, either,
although the Help file says it should be there. (I've retired Win2K; it's
still in the archive, but it's no longer installed so I can't boot it and
see what its menu - or its Help file - says.)
I actually used the DiskPart.exe command interpreter, which is much more
capable than the DiskPart command that is a part of the Recovery Console in
both Win2K and WinXP, but this was not added until WinXP. From the RC,
DiskPart can only Add or Delete partitions. DiskPart.exe, though, has about
20 functions, including Add, Break (mirror), Clean, Convert - and Extend.
This (DiskPart /extend) is the tool that I used to Extend my Drive D:.
(Since D: was - and is - my boot volume, I rebooted to a second copy of
WinXP on X: to extend D:.)
Instead of "expand", MS says to "extend" the volume. You can extend a
primary partition. You can extend a logical drive within an extended
partition if the extended partition is large enough; otherwise you must
extend the extended partition first. To reduce at least a little of the
confusion, I try to remember to say "volume" instead of "partition" or
"drive" when I'm talking about either a primary partition or a logical
drive.
DiskPart /Extend worked beautifully - and FAST! I didn't time it, but it
sure didn't take long - and didn't lose or damage any files. (But, of
course, a backup is never a bad idea.)
I'm not sure where this leaves you, Vasu. We haven't heard from Kevin as to
whether he succeeded in extending his partition. Please post back, either
with a report of success or failure, or with questions for further
clarification.
RC
Like Kevin's, your situation sounds ideal for Extending the volume. But -
Microsoft and I got me confused. ;^{ My prior comments need some
clarification.
Sometimes I forget that I'm in the Win2K newsgroup. I've not used Win2K
since WinXP arrived, but I still read this group often. The two Windows
versions are so similar that most comments on one also apply to the other.
But the method I actually used to Extend my volumes in WinXP was not
available in Win2K.
In Win2K, you should be able to right-click on your Drive E: and choose
Extend from the context menu - after deleting Drives F: and G:, of course,
to create contiguous unallocated space following Drive E:. However, I don't
find Extend on the context menu in Disk Management in my WinXP, either,
although the Help file says it should be there. (I've retired Win2K; it's
still in the archive, but it's no longer installed so I can't boot it and
see what its menu - or its Help file - says.)
I actually used the DiskPart.exe command interpreter, which is much more
capable than the DiskPart command that is a part of the Recovery Console in
both Win2K and WinXP, but this was not added until WinXP. From the RC,
DiskPart can only Add or Delete partitions. DiskPart.exe, though, has about
20 functions, including Add, Break (mirror), Clean, Convert - and Extend.
This (DiskPart /extend) is the tool that I used to Extend my Drive D:.
(Since D: was - and is - my boot volume, I rebooted to a second copy of
WinXP on X: to extend D:.)
Instead of "expand", MS says to "extend" the volume. You can extend a
primary partition. You can extend a logical drive within an extended
partition if the extended partition is large enough; otherwise you must
extend the extended partition first. To reduce at least a little of the
confusion, I try to remember to say "volume" instead of "partition" or
"drive" when I'm talking about either a primary partition or a logical
drive.
DiskPart /Extend worked beautifully - and FAST! I didn't time it, but it
sure didn't take long - and didn't lose or damage any files. (But, of
course, a backup is never a bad idea.)
I'm not sure where this leaves you, Vasu. We haven't heard from Kevin as to
whether he succeeded in extending his partition. Please post back, either
with a report of success or failure, or with questions for further
clarification.
RC