Hard drive partition

Priapus · 11 Jun 2007 at 10:17

Hi guys,

Well I have had my PC on Vista and XP dual boot. Noe I removed XP as I no longer need it and want HD space back, So I formatted the drive on xp setup cd.

Now I tried using Vista hard drive manager to join the two parts again, and the option is greyed out and I cant extend the vista partition.,..

Anyone know how to do this what programs work on Vista?

Thanks!

katana6434 · 11 Jun 2007 at 11:23

I take it that you want to extend the vista partition into the space that you have just freed up?

PartitionMagic will do what you want. It is what I use to play around with partition and I've never had a problem with it. There might be some free tools around but I don't know what they are.

Priapus · 11 Jun 2007 at 11:35

Does it work on Vista though? Which version?

katana6434 · 11 Jun 2007 at 11:42

Does it work on Vista though? Which version?

Thats a good point.....

I really should think about things like that.

From what I can find out, I don't think that it is compatible with Vista.

Sorry about that.

Priapus · 11 Jun 2007 at 14:10

No, not a problem.

Thanks anyway.

jbloggs · 11 Jun 2007 at 14:24

I think PM 8 will do that in DOS.

katana6434 · 11 Jun 2007 at 15:13

Yes I think you might be right.

If you boot up with the PM8 CD, you should then be able to extend that partition. It then shouldn't matter what OS is installed on the disk.

I'm obviousley not thinking about my answers today. Too much beer over the weekend....

:rolleyes:

Priapus · 11 Jun 2007 at 15:19

Well, I don't have the program on cd, do I just copy the files to a cd?

jbloggs · 11 Jun 2007 at 17:15

If you don't have the CD, simply make a couple of (floppy) rescue diskettes (from within PM 8), if you don't have a floppy, download and run 911 Rescue CD or Hiren's Boot CD Download which both has PM on it as one of their utilities.

atomic7431 · 12 Jun 2007 at 08:45

hello

if your after vista support try using acronis disk director suite 10, i find it very good and its got vista support you need. it will split, merge, explore partitions and a whole lot more besides Linky

Mindriot · 12 Jun 2007 at 09:17

Or failing any of those options get hold of a live knoppix disc from here and boot into it and use qparted