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Old 11-05-2008   #2 (permalink)
Gordon


 
 

Re: Moving free space from one extended partition to the Vista partition

"Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Gordon,
>
> Are the two volumes contiguous? They must be next to each other as shown
> in disk manager to do this. First you would shrink E:, then slide it so
> that the free space is immediately behind C:. You would then expand C: to
> encompass the free space. While you can do the shrinking and expanding
> with Vista's disk manager, the slide operation has to be done with a third
> party drive tool like BootitNG or Acronis' disk manager.
>
Thanks for that - I sorted it this way:
Copied all the data from E to an external HDD. Removed E partition in Disk
manager. Re-sized C partition, re-created E partition. Copied data back to
E.
Job done!

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