Expand vista partition to newly freed old linux partition space

I deleted my linux partiton while I wait for the new version of it. I would like expand my vista volume now and add about 40 gb of the now unallocated space to my vista partition. When trying this with gparted there was some error causing it to not work. With disk manegement it says i cannot expand it any further because "my disk cannot be converted to dynamic or the volume being extended is a boot or system volume." Any ideas?

 

My only idea would be to try commercial software like Partition Magic. You may also want to recreate your old partition, format it with NTFS, then delete it again and try gparted again.

Windows Disk Management definitely won't modify the file structure on your partition. I'm not familiar with how well gparted works for dynamically modifying NTFS partitions. I haven't had much call for dynamic partition resizing, but Partition Magic is the only program I know of that reliably does this.

 

Not sure. What is the "some error" you're getting when using gparted? Make sure that the disk isn't mounted. I know that the Ubuntu LiveCD will auto-mount partitions that it recognizes, including NTFS partitions, so you have to unmount them before goofing with the partition tables.