Extending partitioned drives

Hi all
Can anyone help me?
I have a 250 gig hard drive
sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra space
to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines how to
extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot drive cannot
be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot drive and start
again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm running vista home
premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS

All advice would be appreciated

cheers in advance

Shane

You could use Vista's built-in partitioning tool to delete the partitio
you don't want to keep, making it turn into what is called "unallocate
space", which can be used to extend another partition or create anothe
partition. With the built-in disk partitioning tool of Vista, you ca
only extend a partition with unallocated space that is locate
immediately to the RIGHT of the partition you want to make bigger. Bu
Vista's tool doesn't allow you to move unallocated space. You need t
use a commercial tool for that. I have in the past used a tool calle
Boot-It NG to do this. You can download a free trial version of it fro
the website, burn it to a CD with the built-in utility calle
MakeDisk.exe. Then, when you boot to the CD, you click on the butto
for Partition Work and use the "partition slide" concept to make th
unallocated space that is to the right of your partition appear to th
left of it instead; you may have to do this several times in order t
slide the unallocated space to the immediate right of your C: partition
Then you can either use Boot-It NG to extend the C: partition, or us
Vista's built-in tool. You can download Boot-It NG from here
'Boot Manager, Partition Manager, and Drive Image Utility - BootIt Nex
Generation
(http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/boo...generation.htm
And TerabyteUnlimited has a good number of pages with documentation
tutorials, and videos on how to use the tool here
'TeraByte Unlimited :: Support :: BootIt Next Generation
(http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/sup...generation.htm

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LeeTutor

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:42:35 +0100, Shane wrote:

> Hi all
> Can anyone help me?
> I have a 250 gig hard drive
> sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
> partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra
> space to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines
> how to extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot
> drive cannot be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot
> drive and start again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm
> running vista home premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS
>
> All advice would be appreciated
>
> cheers in advance
>
> Shane

Suggest you boot the gparted Live CD and do what you want. It's quite
simple and all graphical.

"Shane" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi all
> Can anyone help me?
> I have a 250 gig hard drive
> sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
> partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra
> space to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines
> how to extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot
> drive cannot be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot drive
> and start again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm running
> vista home premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS
>
> All advice would be appreciated
>
> cheers in advance
>
> Shane

The issue with extending the system partition is that if the space you want
to extend it to isn't physically right next to it on the disk, you can't.
You've created three partitions, so you can delete one, and see if you can
then extend the system partition. If you can't, back up the other
partition and delete it, extend the system partition, then re-create the
other partitions as needed.

There are other tools that can extend the partition, but they don't come
with Vista.

HTH
-pk

"Shane" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> Hi all
> Can anyone help me?
> I have a 250 gig hard drive
> sectioned into 3 partitions and my c drive is almost full one of the
> partitions i don't use and i want to get rid of this and add the extra
> space to my c drive but i find the help section confusing, it explaines
> how to extend the boot drive and then further on it says that the boot
> drive cannot be extended, i don't want to have to re-format the boot drive
> and start again from scratch i just want to do the above. I'm running
> vista home premium 64 bit and all 3 partitions are NTFS
>
> All advice would be appreciated
>
> cheers in advance
>
> Shane

Hi all Shane again i've managed to do what i wanted with your help a BIG
THANKS TO ALL i lost a few gigs of memory i don't know why but a message
flashed up on the screen about only being able to use a certain amount as
the drive cannot be up graded from a simple NTFS but i'm willing to put up
with that for the end result i got
thanks again for all the advice
cheers
Shane

A simple way is partitioning software by Paragon. Very good program*


Do not use Partiton Magic* with Vista.


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craig28

Thanks for all help received.