Help with Partitions

In the picture with Disk0. If I click on the 18.5GB Partition and delete volume, will that add the 18.5GB to the win 7 Partitionon ? Im just trying to get as much Data on one partition as Possible.

 

yes, it should. but if it doesn't automatically you can just extend the (c: ) volume into the newly non-partitioned space.

 

Is that a feature of win7? because I cant remember windows ever automatically combing unused space with another partition, although I haven't had to do that in a long time.

 

Yes I'm Still on 7 and planning on sticking with 7 to

 

No, it will not automatically merge the partitions. After you have deleted the partition, you need to use "Extend Volume on your C: partition to get what you want.

You remember correctly.

Of course.

 

I deleted the volume now says unallocated. I right clicked on WIndows 7 C partition and its not optional to select to extend the volume.

 

Doesn't that only work for space available after the partition you want to extend though?

EDIT:

gparted or parted magic will do that for you, seems like that answered my question before the post edit. I've done it before using gparted, but be aware that there is always a risk of loosing data, it never happened to me, but gparted throws a warning about it so I guess that it's possible in rare cases.

 

See if you can format "unallocated' for NTFS, then extend. Or use gparted.

 

I think you do have to use 3rd party software to extend the volume, this is because windows only extends the partition to the right hand side(yup, only change the end sector but not the start sector)

 

I got Partition Master to get the job done. scared me when I had to reboot and it finished 100% without it restarting automatically so wasn't sure if I should power off or not. I did after waiting 30 mins and started up ok.

 

glad to hear that, i did a disk alignment before which is something similar to partition resizing and my whole 1tb hdd has gone RAW, took sub 20 hours to actually figure out how to restore it(its the file that tells windows how to read the hdd sectors thats got torn up in the alignment process), think it scared me more than you scared yourself

 

well when I restarted it said completed 100% before loading windows. then it restarted again saying 100% completion. then another Restart and I was like oh Crap. thought it was gonna go in a loop again over and over but after the 2nd time it loaded windows fine. weird that it had to do that 2 times.

 

We all get that feeling when we do things that warns us about data loss, and it just goes out of our expectation..... I still have a WD blue 750Gb drive empty, everytime I write past 50+ Gbs I will have one of the files nonoperational, i know its a bad sector, but windows and 3rd party disk tools don't detect it, its like a block that gets detected as normal by anything but just auto erases itself to make a file corrupt

 

HDAT2 maybe? The most powerful test can take an eternity, though.

 

I cloned a 750 gb HD to a 1 TB HD and it made a complete duplicate of the 750 GB on the 1 TB drive. I downloaded a free partitian manager and it was real easy. I can't remember the name of it but it was easy to use.