Any Disk Management bods in here [Vista]?

Ed · 18 Mar 2007 at 11:15

I've a single 250Gb HDD and it's partitioned as follows:

The unallocated space come from shrinking the C: partition. I now wish to extend the E: partition to take the unallocated space but when I right-click on the E: drive, the extend function is disabled. I can extend the C: drive to take the space back but that's not what I'm trying to do.

Anyone here has more experience with this at all? Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks.

Gman · 18 Mar 2007 at 14:01

not totaly sure but I don;t think vista is cable of doing what you want wth drives that already have content on.

I think you'll need to use some other 3rd party software which will allow you to extend the partitions without impacting the current contents.

rpstewart · 18 Mar 2007 at 14:49

Gman said:
not totaly sure but I don;t think vista is cable of doing what you want wth drives that already have content on.

That's my understanding, as far as I'm aware you can only extend a partition, what you're trying to do is move it "left" then extend it, it's not possible to extend backwards before the beginning of the partition if you see what I mean.

Ed · 18 Mar 2007 at 15:17

Ahh, I see.

What you're saying is that to make it work I'd need to uninstall all content from the E: drive, mark it as unallocated, format the current unallocated space, call it E:, then extend that.

Sounds like too much hard work.

comatose · 18 Mar 2007 at 15:22

You could just copy all the data from E: to C:, do your repartitioning then copy back to the new E: drive. So long as you keep the drive letters the same you shouldn't have to uninstall anything.