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Re: Extending partition
"Vol" <Vol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B783BD86-016B-4D90-A898-ADAE96F62EF6@microsoft.com...
> I've found my way into the disk manager. It reads as follows:
>
> 1st - 47MB - Healthy - EISA Configuration (system area, I'm guessing?)
> 2nd - 14.65GB - Unallocated
> 3rd - C - 218.13 GB NTFS (approx 200 GB free)
>
> I'm wanting to absorb the unallocated area into my main C drive, but I
> think
> it's giving me problems since that space is BEFORE the formatted drive.
> Is
> that correct? If so here is my plan of attack, as ugly as it is:
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> Shrink C by 30 GB
> Rename C to D
> Format newly "extra" space as E
> Move all my files onto the new E
> Format original unallocated space as C
> Delete D & E, which will now be AFTER C
> Expand new C to absorb D&E's now-unallocated space
>
> That sure sounds like a royal pain-in-the-you-know-what. 2 questions.
>
> 1 - Will it work?
> 2 - Is there an easier way to skin the cat?
>
> ~Vol
Someone should be able to suggest a free or cheap partition manager, that
would be a pretty simple option.
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