Solved How to add more space to my Vista partition

[lordbob75]

Glad you got it fixed. Mark the thread solved.

~Lordbob

 

[ingeborgdot]

Where?

 

[lordbob75]

I'm not sure.... I have never done it...

~Lordbob

 

[Shtodan]

Ey ppl i stil have problem...have full C i don't want to crush win cus of that...
vista ultimate 64...i moved things from E deleted it...but no extend..when right click on C...any ideas? here is screen shot

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

No, you can't change the boundaries of the dark green rectangle.

That is called an extended partition. Inside that you can make other "logical" partitions.

You can, of course, delete the Extended partition - but you don't want to do that or you will lose your data.

You could use a third party bootable partition manager.

Rive0108 has provided one here

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/163304-dual-boot-using-free-partitioning-software.html

After you have burned the cd ( do not format the cd - if autoplay pops up, just close it), you need to boot into it.

It should allow you to change the Extended partition to a Primary one, extend it to incorporate the free space ( currently showing in light green ). Then merge extra space from that onto your C partition.

 

[Shtodan]

I'm not realy sure what u tryed to explain but i understud that i can't do it this way (from Disk menagement)...i will reinstall os not a big deal...and then i will be able to resize partitions right? (on step where i choose where to install os and stuf)

ty for your time

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

You can do partitioning during install from the dvd, but you will only be able to increase that first partition by deleting the Multimedia (extended) partition.

If you can copy anything you want to keep onto an external HD first, then it will not be a problem to repartition during installation.

You can copy your stuff back afterwards.

 

[Shtodan]

lame.. xD thanks a lot anyway!..i'll see what to do

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

If you can copy the data you want to keep to an external Hd, then you will not need to reinstall.

After you have copied off your data, go into Disk Management.

Rt click the multimedia partition and Delete. Then rt click the extended partition itself and Delete.

You will now have a lot of unallocated on the right of the C partition.

Rt click the C partition, select Extend and type in how much , e.g. 10gb is 10,000mb. Then click Finish.

You will still have a lot of unallocated space, so rt click it and select New simple Volume, tick Quick format , and the drive letter it allocates by default should be fine.

It takes a couple of minutes to do that. When done, Restart your pc.

You can then copy back your data onto your brand new partition - which will be a Primary this time - dark blue like your C partition.

Hope it helps

SIW2

 

[Shtodan]

Tanks again, but where to put 90gb dont have external HD i'll figure somthing..
cheers

 

[Shtodan]

done it as u said..all works. thank ya!

 

[SIW2]

Hi shtodan,

Glad it worked for you.:D