Hi so i need around 10 gb on my main hard drive i use and i have 4 partition and i wanna shrink one of them and put around 10 gb on the main on i use which is (C) so i open disk management and right clicked on my (D) drive and shrinked 10 gb and everything was going fine so i right clicked on (C) my main drive and i could't extend the volume and i even tried it on my other partition E and F and still nothing i could't click on it so i right clicked on my D drive and put the 10 gb back in. so i am complete lost i have no idea what to do now so any one know what i am doing wrong ? or a way to get around this?
Thanks in advance

Originally Posted by eldinv

Can you please post a screen shot of your disk management window?

Here a screen shot

Originally Posted by eldinv

There something that doesn't look right. Your D drive is marked as active? Have you re-installed Vista before? And the C drive is the last partition.

You won't be able to gain any space of your C drive from within Windows since there is no space to the right of that partition.

You will have to use that link for the Partition Wizard Free Bootable CD.

i used to have win7 on the D drive but i got rid of it so i guess thats why its active and i will try the link u gave me

Originally Posted by eldinv

That makes PERFECT sense!! I would make a backup!! Before editing your partitions.

I think the problem is that my D drive is the system drive unlike my local c drive cause i deleted one partition which was E and there 40 gb of unallocated space and i right clicked on my D drive and the extend thing is there unlike on my other drives so i need a way to make my C drive the system drive

Originally Posted by eldinv

I can't comment on this because I think it has to do with that partition being marked as Active.

Did you try it with the bootable disc or only within Windows?

To be honest, if you have another hard drive or somewhere to backup your files, I would do a new install. I know its a headache, especially in Vista but there's a mess with partitions. The first partition should be your OS normally, unless your in a dual boot setup.

Clean Install with a Full Version of Vista

I will give the Bootable disc link u gave me and if don't work i will merge the partitions