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    How do I merge unallocated disk space to logical drive? PLEASE HELP!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by WhySoSerious, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. WhySoSerious

    WhySoSerious Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, I have just recently partitioned my hard drive, with Vista on one part, and then Windows 7.


    Vista is a Primary Partition, and Windows 7 is a logical partition.

    I want to have more space on my Windows 7 partition, so I shrunk Vista and got 100GB off of it, and that is now unallocated disk space in 'Computer Management' under the 'Disk' heading.


    Now I want to merge the unallocated disk space with my Windows 7 partition.
    How do I do this??

    When I right click on the Windows 7 partition and go to click on 'Extend', the 'Extend' option is greyed out.

    How do I do this now?

    Thanks
     
    WhySoSerious, Oct 28, 2009
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Extend can only go in one direction, toward the "end" of the disk. You're going to have to look into a tool like Partition Magic or boot from a gparted CD and do the moving around of the data there.
     
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  3. WhySoSerious

    WhySoSerious Notebook Consultant

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    Partition Magic doesn't work on Windows 7 OR Vista. That gparted seems complicated.
    I have Paragon partition manager 10 but this doesn't let me merge the two drives. It does let me change the logical drive to a primary drive though. (if this helps?)
     
    WhySoSerious, Oct 28, 2009
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    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can use Acronis Disk Director for this.
     
    Pirx, Oct 28, 2009
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    Changing the partition, and you have to move it. What it sounds like is that you freed space to the left of the Windows 7 partition. You can't just expand into that space... you have to move that entire partition to the left via copying, and that takes a special tool. I'm sorry if gparted seems complicated... what you're asking for is a somewhat complicated operation.
     
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    I used Paragon partition suite. Thanks for your replies.
     
    WhySoSerious, Nov 1, 2009
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