Unallocated Space

I've just finished doing a fresh Windows 7 install, and in the process I wiped the Asus recovery volume, with the intention of merging that space into my C: drive. However, I haven't been able to do that, as the space needs to be to the right or left of my C: drive and the "System Reserved" space is in the way.

Any way to merge this empty space?

http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/powermapler/UnallocatedSpace.png

 

gparted live will allow you to do just that, note that there is a small risk of loss of data.

 

You could also merge it with the "System reserved", then free it from System Reserved to move it to the beginning.

And you wiped my OS partition I sent you?! I had that tuned!

 

Haha,

Chastity's method should work too.

Welcome back to the forums Chastity, we missed you.

 

Haha. Sorry. I decided I wanted a clean install.

EDIT: And yeah, you'd think so, but alas: http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/powermapler/Nope1.png

 

In this case, you could use any of these two:

GParted -- Live CD/USB/PXE/HD
downloads ? Parted Magic

gparted is more lightweight and would suit your needs. It is possible that after moving all those partitions, windows will want to do a good old scandisk. Just let it run it's course and enjoy the extra HDD space afterwards. I suggest you get one of those two utilities, they usually come in handy anyways, either for checking if a problem lies with windows or elsewhere since you can use it as a boot from cd linus or to manage external drives. I have used gparted in the past to go over the 32GB partition limit Windows imposes on FAT32 volumes, PS3s can't read NTFS...

 

Yeah, I was going to try out gparted. I'm just too lazy to get my DVDs out. I'll try one of the two tonight, thanks.

 

It is possible to get gparted to boot from USB if you do not have cds handy. I never have cds or dvds handy personally.

 

OK, I ended up using PartedMagic, and it did it's job perfectly. I had a bit of a scare when Windows failed to boot, but that was nothing that a quick insert of my W7 disk and a repair/disk check couldn't fix.

Thanks!

 

That was probably because the MBR got moved and windows couldn't find it or some similar issue. All your data was still there, moving partitions with data on them is always a bit tricky. I never moved the MBR, but merging two partitions with data caused windows to want to scan the disk at startup.

Anyways, glad your issues are solved.

 

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