Moving free space from one extended partition to the Vista partition

seeing lots of conflicting advice and problems with this.
I have C: partition (Boot, Windows etc) and E: partition (data). I need to
move free space from E to C.
What is the consensus of opinion on here as to the best way to do this?

Hi Gordon,

Are the two volumes contiguous? They must be next to each other as shown in
disk manager to do this. First you would shrink E:, then slide it so that
the free space is immediately behind C:. You would then expand C: to
encompass the free space. While you can do the shrinking and expanding with
Vista's disk manager, the slide operation has to be done with a third party
drive tool like BootitNG or Acronis' disk manager.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
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> seeing lots of conflicting advice and problems with this.
> I have C: partition (Boot, Windows etc) and E: partition (data). I need to
> move free space from E to C.
> What is the consensus of opinion on here as to the best way to do this?

"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi Gordon,
>
> Are the two volumes contiguous? They must be next to each other as shown
> in disk manager to do this. First you would shrink E:, then slide it so
> that the free space is immediately behind C:. You would then expand C: to
> encompass the free space. While you can do the shrinking and expanding
> with Vista's disk manager, the slide operation has to be done with a third
> party drive tool like BootitNG or Acronis' disk manager.
>

Thanks for that - I sorted it this way:
Copied all the data from E to an external HDD. Removed E partition in Disk
manager. Re-sized C partition, re-created E partition. Copied data back to
E.
Job done!

A FREE partition tool works fine to extend C drive without data loss an
reinstall OS.

Here is a detailed solution:

'FREE Resize/Move FAT32 & NTFS Partitions in Window
2000/XP/Vista/Server 2003, 2008. Enlarge or Reduce Partition - EASEU
Partition Master Manual' (http://tinyurl.com/5pyo3j

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