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| Newbie Rep Power: 8 ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend This method would not let me extend the volume with Vista on it (C:\) the Extend... was grayed out, but it would let me extend the D:\ that has my XP installation on it... ALL are on the same disk! how do i get around this? I followed the instructions to a T. Thanks |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend Hi Morphene, If everything is on the same hard drive, then this would be normal for Disk Management since D:/ is already an extended partition from C:/. Disk Management can only change or use the part of the hard drive that is free at the end of the last unmovable file (allocated space) on the hard drive. (EX: XP installation, Vista Page file, System Restore Cache File, etc.) The only way around this is to use a 3rd party disk management program like Symantec Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Partition Manager. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| Newbie Rep Power: 6 ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend hi, I am a learner... new to computer. While Extending my drives i have deleted D dive (one of the two drives in the pc) where nothing was saved. how can i rtrive that drive. pls suggest asap. Thanx |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend Hi Shahnawaz, Welcome to Vista Forums. ![]() If you want to remove the D:\ partition and add it back to the other partition to make one large drive again, then you can start at step 6 above in this tutorial. If you want to maintain the separate D:\ partition, then start at step 8 here to add it back. How to Shrink and Create a Partition with Disk Management in Vista Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| Newbie Rep Power: 5 ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend
Symantec claims that their Partition Magic is not yet compatible with Vista, any other suggestions on a third party disk manager? | |||||||||||||||
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend Hi zoltaaaan, Welcome to Vista Forums. ![]() I would recommend Acronis Partition Manager in the Acronis Disk Director Suite. It does a great job in Vista. You can download a free trial version of it to see if you like here. Hard disk drive management software, partitioning manager and partition recovery utility Shawn |
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| Newbie Rep Power: 5 ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend Acronis worked perfectly, thank you so much! |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend Your welcome zoltaaaan. I'm glad that it worked for what you wanted. Shawn |
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| Newbie Rep Power: 5 ![]() | Re: Disk Management - Delete and Extend hello, i need some help. i am new to this forum. by the way this is a great site. back to my situation, i am following your instruction on extending my hard drive. i am on step where i need to click on extend, but it is grayed out. what do i do now. i have the lenovo y510 which has a 30 gb main partitioned drive and the rest is 188gb. thank you miguel |
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