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June 22nd, 2008 21:00

Partition Help?

Hi. I need some help here. I while back I partitioned by hard drive into 3 partitions. One for Vista, one for XP, and another with the rest of the space. But now I'm only running Vista. I got rid of the XP partition, but now I still have the other partition. I cleared everything off of it, so it's good to delete. But I don't know how to transfer the space from that partition over to my C:/ drive. Here's a screenshot of the Computer Management from Vista.

 

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8057/hdderrorqw4.jpg

 

Again, its the C:/ drive that has Vista on it,  and the D:/ that I want to get rid of and add that space to C:/. Thanks.

  • GamerGuy1

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    Posted June 22nd, 2008 22:00

    I should have mentioned this in the first post, but I did try that before. It turns the partition into Free Space, but it still says its an extended partition. And it won't give me the option of extending the C:/ drive.
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    Posted June 22nd, 2008 22:00

    Hi

    This is simple to do you use disk manager right click on D:\ and delete that partition .

    Then right click on C:\ and select expand this partition it will take up the space

    that was left over after you deleted D:\ !!

    And if want to you could do the same for all of the other partitions and just have one big C:\

    but you can not delete the little partition in front of C:\  Vista will not expand to the center of the drive

    it can only expand out to the end of the drive !

    Good Luck 

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    Posted June 23rd, 2008 19:00

    Hi

    From what i see you can only have 4 primary partitions

    you would have to delete one of the other partitions like the 2 gig one to make the C:\

    expand out to take up the rest of the space !

    Good Luck

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    Posted June 24th, 2008 14:00

    Actually, after removing the D-drive, you also have to right click on the extended partition (surrounded by the green barrier), and then you can extend the C-drive by right clicking on it and selecting to extend it.
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    Posted June 24th, 2008 15:00

    What do you mean by that? I deleted the D drive, but now when I right click it, it only gives me the option of "New Simple Volume", and "Delete Partition" (which gives an error saying there's not enough space to do that)
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    Posted June 24th, 2008 16:00

    You should be able to delete the green (extended) partition.

    After this you right click on the C-drive and select to extend.
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    Posted June 24th, 2008 19:00

    Whenever I try to do that, it says "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation"
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    Posted June 25th, 2008 15:00

    That is when I try to delete the partition. But, it's when I try to delete it after I've made it free space. But when I do make it free space, it is still surrounded by the green outline saying it's extended.

     

    And when I try now to extend the C drive, even though I have the free space, the option is just greyed out and unclickable.

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    Posted June 25th, 2008 15:00

    When you try to do what? The delete or the extend option?