Disk Management Problem..

Hi, i have recently installed windows 7 on my pc. I shrink another volume for my windows 7. Now, i have uninstall windows 7 and deleted it. i formatted the volume were windows 7 is installed. now i plan to increase my main drive, which is windows vista installed, i cannot extend the volume of my main drive... please help me.. here is the pic of what's my problem....

 

You'll need to use a third party partitioning tool to extend your partition. I would download the GParted CD. It's a free partitioning tool that works very well.

 

You won't be able to use the disk management tool to do this. The problem is you can only extend a partition (C: in this case) to unallocated disk space that is immediately adjacent to the C: partition. Right now you have a D: partition separating the two.

You have two ways that you can accomplish what you want.

First would be to copy the D: partition to some external medium, delete the D: partition, extend the C: partition, recreate the D: partition and copy the data back.

The other way is to use a third party tool that can MOVE (aka slide) the D: partition down so that the unallocated space is between the existing C: partition and the new location of the D: partition. Then you can extend the C: partition into this unallocated space. I use BootIT NG for this sort of thing, but it is not easy to use. Other folks might be able to recommend another tool to do it this way.

The first way is the easiest but requires a bit more time.

Gary

 

Thanks SchuderiaConchiglia..

the first way work...

thanks again..