Expand primary drive

GregorMae

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Hello,

I need to expand (get bigger) my primary drive where is the OS installed. It's 20GB.
I want to add some free space to let the WIN to run "normally". I have the secondary partition where are the programs and other stuff.

Under disc management i can't expand - the option is grey. What should i do?
Anyone can help me? :o

Thank you,
Regards,
-Greg
 

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Think your only option is formatting the drives and then dimensioning them again.
 

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    Western Digital 320GB @ 16MB Buffer
I think you will find that the partitioning software built into vista is rather limited. you may find better luck with something like Gparted which runs on Linux from a Live CD. have a look and decide which is the easier option when the reinstall overhead is taken into account, if you've just built the syatem and don't have much software to re-install then it's probably easier. althiough as long as you've got backups of everthing a little time invested with Gparted could be time well spent.

Oh I almost forgot ... Welcome to the forums :party:
 

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