Can't extend Boot Partition

[Stan_Lite]

Having a bit of a problem.

I'm off to Egypt tomorrow for a month to work.
I wanted to take my entire music collection with me on my laptop.

I want to keep it all together but when I got my new laptop it had two partitions, one system and one for data and neither has enough free space to hold the entire collection.

I deleted the data partition and converted the system partition to NTFS using the convert utility.

I tried to extend the system partition to use the, now, unallocated space but have since discovered that the extend utility cannot extend a boot/system partition.

Is there any way I can get around this without having to buy partition manager or such like?

Thanks in advance.

Stan

 

[nightwish]

Put the data partition back and just split your music collection over both partitions?

Alternatively, I'm sure the the Ultimate Boot Disc will be able to do what you want.

 

[Skilldibop]

Buy a USB2 Hard drive, Music on that, plug in and wh00tle you go. Obviously you don't want a 500GB one, so go for a cheapy 40gig or something.

 

[me227]

If you delete that new partition you made then you should be able to merge them using Windows.

Right click my Computer
Manage
Disk Management

I think i've done this in the past before with the built in manager on a system partition.