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Old 05-28-2008   #1 (permalink)
Keith


 
 

Extending the Primary Partition

Hi
I am running Microsoft Vista Home Premium, and for some reason the primary
partition is only 20gb, (although the full hard drive is 250gb).

I only have about 500mb left of space on this drive, I have tried to extend
it without success.
It is easy to extend or shrink the other drives in vista, but not extend the
primary partition.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks Keith



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Old 05-28-2008   #2 (permalink)
the wharf rat


 
 

Re: Extending the Primary Partition

In article <1Ch%j.19840$Zs3.19295@xxxxxx>,
Keith <keith.robinson28@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Anyone got any ideas?
>
Holy deja vu!!!

Anyway...

You can do this with drive management just like any other drive
PROVIDED THAT

Your boot volume is a basic volume. If you tried to be smart
and make it dynamic because dynamic volumes are easier to manage try again :-)

The free space you want to expand into is adjacent to the high blocks
of the existing system volume, that is

| system volume | free space | drive d:|

If you have, say,

| system volume | drive d: | free space |

the expand option will be greyed out. You'll need to delete drive D to
proceed.

Thanks again to jawande for making this clear.


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