vista partition modification
- I'm looking to extend the volume of my main drive. i have a 320GB hard drive with 39GB partition (C) which has my operating system and windows files and a D drive which has the remaining 259GB. and am looking to extend the volume of the C drive.
according to http://www.computerhovel.com/modify-vista-partition.html through computer management and storage you should be able to modify the partition with the extend volume option. but neither the C or even the D drives for that matter have that option avaliable, both only have the shrink volume. is there a reason for this?
I would imagine to extend the C partition i would have to shrink the D? or it doesn't work like that.1 person got this answerI do too
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You can not do it the way you want to with Vista's Disk Management.
You will have to delete D: > then extend C: into the then Unallocated space where D: was.
You can not take a bit off C:, and tack it onto D:.
It does not work like that.
Of course you can shrink D:; but only to make another partition in the space that you have shrunk from D; so you would then have c, D, and E
You can only shrink/extend from the end, not the front.
You can delete D:, and extend C: into only part of where D: was, and then make another smaller partition similar to D:
Read these Tutorials to give your self an idea of how to use it.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95398-disk-management-shrink-partition.html
Good luck with it.
Cheers.
Mick Murphy - Microsoft Partner- Marked As Answer byEdgar - Support EngineerMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 19, 2009 3:05 AM
- Hello JimmyBrasco,
Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Answers Community.
Disk Management and DiskPart Extends the volume with focus into the next contiguous unallocated space. For basic volumes, the unallocated space must be on the same disk as, and must follow (have a higher sector offset number than) the partition with focus.
If you are looking at Disk Management, this means, if you are looking at your C: partition the unallocated space MUST be located directly to the right of that C: partition. If you have another partition in between, you will only be allowed to extend the partition directly to the left of the unallocated space.
This could be a work around, if you have C: and D:, and have files on D: but have extra space.
- Shrink D: to create just enough unallocated space to store your files that are on D:.
- Create a new partition with the unallocated space to move your files to.
- Move your files from D: to the new partition.
- Now delete the D: partition
This creates unallocated space between your C: partition and the new partition that you created to move your files to.
- Now right-click on your C: partition and extend like normal.
Hope this helps
Chris.H
Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.- Marked As Answer byEdgar - Support EngineerMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 19, 2009 3:05 AM
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You can not do it the way you want to with Vista's Disk Management.
You will have to delete D: > then extend C: into the then Unallocated space where D: was.
You can not take a bit off C:, and tack it onto D:.
It does not work like that.
Of course you can shrink D:; but only to make another partition in the space that you have shrunk from D; so you would then have c, D, and E
You can only shrink/extend from the end, not the front.
You can delete D:, and extend C: into only part of where D: was, and then make another smaller partition similar to D:
Read these Tutorials to give your self an idea of how to use it.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95398-disk-management-shrink-partition.html
Good luck with it.
Cheers.
Mick Murphy - Microsoft Partner- Marked As Answer byEdgar - Support EngineerMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 19, 2009 3:05 AM
- Hello JimmyBrasco,
Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Answers Community.
Disk Management and DiskPart Extends the volume with focus into the next contiguous unallocated space. For basic volumes, the unallocated space must be on the same disk as, and must follow (have a higher sector offset number than) the partition with focus.
If you are looking at Disk Management, this means, if you are looking at your C: partition the unallocated space MUST be located directly to the right of that C: partition. If you have another partition in between, you will only be allowed to extend the partition directly to the left of the unallocated space.
This could be a work around, if you have C: and D:, and have files on D: but have extra space.
- Shrink D: to create just enough unallocated space to store your files that are on D:.
- Create a new partition with the unallocated space to move your files to.
- Move your files from D: to the new partition.
- Now delete the D: partition
This creates unallocated space between your C: partition and the new partition that you created to move your files to.
- Now right-click on your C: partition and extend like normal.
Hope this helps
Chris.H
Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.- Marked As Answer byEdgar - Support EngineerMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 19, 2009 3:05 AM
