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    Combine Partitions / Asus UL30V

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by falieson, Feb 24, 2010.

  1. falieson

    falieson Notebook Enthusiast

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    My ASUS UL30V arrived in the mail today and as I expected the single HDD was partitioned into OS and Data.

    Well, just moving over all my docs from my desktop has already filled up the OS drive and I would like to merge the two partitions.

    I deleted the partition in the win7 partition manager, but it will not allow me the option to "extend" the partition to the available unallocated space.

    I downloaded "EASE US" Professional partion manager 4.1.X but this gave me an error when I tried to extend the partition as well.

    Of course I've tried rebooting etc. I'm stumped.

    help?
     
    falieson, Feb 24, 2010
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    beige Notebook Deity

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    what is the size of ur hard drive? , did u backup ur data ? , if u backed up ur data and have a windows 7 cd , boot from windows cd and choose custom install delete all partitions then make only 1 partition and choose it to install windows from it , if this is too hard for you , try a program called paragon partition manager , its free for partitioning , pretty easy , just be sure to disable sleep and hibernate after some time cause this will stop the program in the middle of the process

    pm me if u need any help
     
    beige, Feb 24, 2010
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    falieson Notebook Enthusiast

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    The notebook just came in the mail today, I really don't want to do a fresh install - I just got everything setup on it the way I want! except for the whole problem where the laptop came with the harddrive setup in two seperate partitions. The HDD is 500GB, and they have a 12GB recovery partition, and 120GB for the OS. I deleted the remaining partition with hopes of merging it into the "OS" partition.

    I don't think the demo version of paragon will allow me to make changes to my partitions, it says "Virtual mode" only. I'm downloading the professional version but it says it's going to take a couple hours.

    Anyone have any other ideas? Honestly, I think there is just something going on that I don't understand if EASE US, and the windows 7 partition manager won't work.
     
    falieson, Feb 25, 2010
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    falieson Notebook Enthusiast

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    Paragon Partition Manager worked!

    What paragon noticed that windows 7 and EASE US didn't is that the unallocated space was part of an extended partition (something win7 probably did when I deleted the original partition). So all I had to do was delete the extended partition containing the unallocated space and boom - there we go, I can extend the "C" drive!
     
    falieson, Feb 25, 2010
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    so you r done and happy now ?? :D , enjoy ur new laptop and welcome to NBR
     
    beige, Feb 25, 2010
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