varunb on 9/8/2008 at 06:07
I have 3 partitions in my PC - C, D, E & 19.1GB of unallocated space. My Vista is installed in C drive which has a total space of 39GB. I just want to extend the C drive to that unallocated space so that my drive becomes 58.1GB approx. The only problem is that the unallocated space is listed after E drive. Can any help me in this ? :(
bikerdude on 9/8/2008 at 10:12
Quote Posted by varunb
I have 3 partitions in my PC - C, D, E & 19.1GB of unallocated space. My Vista is installed in C drive which has a total space of 39GB. I just want to extend the C drive to that unallocated space so that my drive becomes 58.1GB approx. The only problem is that the unallocated space is listed after E drive. Can any help me in this ? :(
most live linux cd's have a partition manager that allows the resizing of partitions on the fly... someone will be along soon who knows more detail than me.
biker
Zerker on 9/8/2008 at 12:29
From the thread title, it sounds like Varunb's using the GParted Live CD, which is self-contained for this purpose. I played around with my partition makeup a while ago and didn't really have any significant problem with it. I believe there IS an option to reorder the partitions; you'll just have to experiment a little bit. Don't worry, nothing happens until you commit the changes.
varunb on 9/8/2008 at 15:43
I have tried reordering them but its not possible. The only thing left is to start shrinking the D & E partitions from left so that C drive can be extended but this is a very lengthy process & will consume atleast 4 hours. Isn't there any other solution or utility ?
Kyloe on 9/8/2008 at 21:08
You could mount that unallocated space as a folder on your C: drive. You could then move some of your data into that folder. I wouldn't do it with OS files or program files, but you might have something like an MP3 or video folder.
varunb on 10/8/2008 at 05:57
Thanx for ur advice Kyloe but I am not buying that. Its not logically correct. Lets see what else comes up.
Kyloe on 10/8/2008 at 09:22
Just try it. Look at my screenshot. I have created an empty folder on my C: drive and mounted a new partition, which is on another drive, into that folder. It doesn't matter if your new partition is on the same drive.
This did not make my C: drive any larger, but I was able to move a couple of wma files into that new volume. The result is more free space on C:. Notice the path of the wma file: C://MyExtraPartition/Neuer Ordner2/0004017.wma.
Inline Image:
http://freenet-homepage.de/kyloe/MountVolume.gifIn the end, this is hardly more than moving some of your data files onto another drive, but depending on why you want to extend your drive, it may be enough. It's easily done and you can always go back to your old configuration.
CaptSyn on 23/8/2008 at 14:58
If all those partitions are on the same physical hard drive and there's enough free space, then just use the trial version of Acronis Disk Director Suite to do what you want.
And it won't take 4 hours either.
*And no, I don't work for Acronis. They just make kick ass software.
varunb on 27/8/2008 at 16:42
I had figured that out later before u posted but thanx anyways for ur reply. :cool:
Martek on 31/8/2008 at 09:36
Quote Posted by varunb
Thanx for ur advice Kyloe but I am not buying that. Its not logically correct. Lets see what else comes up.
I can vouch that the "folder as a drive" technique works just fine. Use it all the time.
