Partition Problems

Hi All,

Need some help here ~

Attached below is a screenshot of my Disk Manager ~



The 9.77GB at front of C: is empty.....I don't know how it got there ~ It's always been a drive with not drive letter ~

I've even tried deleting it.....formatted it and wanted to extend to D: but it won't let me do it ~

So....how can I do this.....merge this 9.77GB into D: ~

If it was 1GB or so I wouldn't mind.....but we're talking about 9.77GB here and to me.....that is quite some valuable space ~ There is quite alot I can do with 9.77GB ~

That's my rant.....hope I can get it solved ~

Thanks ~

Jaspie ~

 

Right click on the New Volume, and select Delete Volume.
Then right-click on C: or D:, and select Extend Volume.

Or use GParted to merge the partitions, or just delete the new volume partition so that it shows up as unallocated space.

EDIT:

If Disk Mngt is not letting you delete New Voume, use GParted to delete it, and then use the Extend feature in Disk Mngt.

If you want to merge New Volume and D:, then do everything in GParted, since your VistaOS partition will remain untouched. Basically, playing around with the System Partition in GParted screws up winload.exe in vista.

 

Just make sure you shut down Windows or whatever OS your using...or else gparted will give you an error about how the partition/OS didn't shutdown correctly. Also be forewarned, if you have a lot of data it can take awhile.

 

Alternatively, you can also use Acronis True Home to manipulate the partitions, delete the little rump partition and add the space to your existing _Vista partition.

 

I recommend Acronis as well. I just did a bunch of partitioning work and was very impressed by the performance of it. I think Shyster1 meant to say Acronis Disk Director though. It might be smart (if you have it) to use Acronis True Image Home to backup data before messing around with it, but Disk Director does the partition work.

 

Correct, the actual app that does the work is Disk Director - that was bundled in with the copy of True Image Home I've got, so I just use that name indiscriminately to refer to both; thanks for clarifying my point.

 

I can delete it but it won't let me extend it.....that option is greyed out ~

I want to extend it to D: and not C: ~

Can Acronis merge it to D: ~ Do I still need to do a backup if I'm merging it to D:?

Jaspie ~

 

First, always, always, always, backup.

Second, the reason you cannot get this little stump partition directly stitched onto your D: partition is because your C: partition is, basically, sitting in the way, at least that's the way I'm going to phrase it since I don't know either (i) if one partition can be "in the way" like I said, or (ii) if partitions really need to be physically contiguous.

In any event, the metaphor/analogy, as bad as it is, should still fit the bill - you should be able to first add the additional space to your C: partition, then remove an equivalent amount of space from the backend of your C: partition (i.e., create an unallocated portion of the disk sitting between the C: and D: partitions as you look at them in your graphic representation), and then add that space to your D: partitition.

Have you tried that yet?

 

Shyster1 is right. Always back up data before doing partition work, especially if you don't know exactly what you're doing.

 

+1 for using gparted off of a live disk (I recommend using the 32-bit version of ubuntu live disk)