Win7 partition behaiviour.

[Refreshment]

Good evening:

Have a 1 TB hardisk with 3 partitions wich contain the following. Every partition is using the NTFS.

c: Win32 bit (OS)
d: Win64 (OS)
f: biggest partition for programs, files, etc.

Using disk management, the program allows me to shrink every partition. So i want to extent f: Proceed to shrink, lets say d:, no problems. Then when trying to extend f: the option is grayed out. So in conclusion i can only extend the 2 OS partitions (c: and d

Why is that?

Thanks for your time and posible input.

 

[KillerBee]

Extending to the left may not be possible using Disk Manager

Parted Magic may be able to do what you want
http://partedmagic.com/

If you want to make a bootable Parted Magic thumb drive vs CD
"Unetbootin" will download it and set it up for you

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/

edit: it may be quicker to download the partedmagic "iso" on your own
rather than let it decide on which mirror to use
and then point unetbootin to the iso you downloaded

 

[Maverick6969]

Good evening:

Have a 1 TB hardisk with 3 partitions wich contain the following. Every partition is using the NTFS.

c: Win32 bit (OS)
d: Win64 (OS)
f: biggest partition for programs, files, etc.

Using disk management, the program allows me to shrink every partition. So i want to extent f: Proceed to shrink, lets say d:, no problems. Then when trying to extend f: the option is grayed out. So in conclusion i can only extend the 2 OS partitions (c: and d

Why is that?

Thanks for your time and posible input.

You can only extend a partition if there is empty space directly to the right. I just had experience with this myself using Windows Disk Management console. For what you are looking to do, you'll need a 3rd party application like the one mentioned by vtx1300. I myself prefer Partition Wizard, it has an extremely simple user interface and is safe to use. I just installed it on a Win7 OS to change the partition layout on a 500 GB drive.

 

[Refreshment]

Thank you for the replies.

Any risk of using this third party software to redistribute the partitions? Other think that im curious about is if i could use the Ubuntu installation disk to do the same thing. Anyone knows?

 

[Maverick6969]

Thank you for the replies.

Any risk of using this third party software to redistribute the partitions? Other think that im curious about is if i could use the Ubuntu installation disk to do the same thing. Anyone knows?

Again - I think that the application is safe to use but I have only used it once on my home system and it's up to you whether you want to try it or not. According to the information on Partition Wizard's website, basic home "free" version does indeed support Ext2 and Ext3 file systems.

There is another partition manager that has been around for a while that you might want to consider. Don't ask me whether it's "safe" or not... I have no personal experience with this one.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/