Increasing hard drive partition?

KiiYzOo · 24 Jun 2011 at 20:51

Hey guys, I'm running out of space on my main hard drive partition and I was wondering whether it was possible to expand the main partition without having to format either of the partitions?

rpstewart · 24 Jun 2011 at 20:59

Yep, the likes of GParted or Partition Magic will do what you're looking for. Make sure you've got a backup first, while moving partitions around is usually safe there's always a risk of something going wrong.

Moothead2 · 24 Jun 2011 at 20:59

Right click on the partition you want to make smaller and click shrink volume. Do the same on the main partition but click extend volume. If you have Vista or 7 just type Disk management in the search box under the start menu and click on create and format disk partitions.

KiiYzOo · 24 Jun 2011 at 21:12

it's not letting me extend the partition

Surveyor · 24 Jun 2011 at 21:40

Post a picture of your disk management screen so we can see what you have.

KiiYzOo · 24 Jun 2011 at 21:53

Surveyor · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:01

Are you trying to extend the "C" volume?

I think with Windows you can only extend a partition if there's empty space to the right of it in disk management.

You can't extend into the 200GB on the left.

Maybe there are other programs which can do that.

KiiYzOo · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:34

Like the ones rpstewart suggested?

DragonQ · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:36

Use Partition Wizard Home Edition, tis free and it should do this without a reboot.

AbsenceJam · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:39

The Windows one can't always do it and it can also only extend to the right.

Use Gparted, it'll be on almost any Linux disk.

rpstewart · 25 Jun 2011 at 09:26

With that layout I'd be looking to move the d: partition to the right and then shift the System Reserved and c: partitions to the far left. As it stands at the moment you're booting from the slowest part of the disk.