Vista - Partitions

Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs of
that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I totally
got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my problem is
that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows Vista
partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS version 3.0
What can I do to get all my space back?

"Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
> Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs of
> that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
> totally
> got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my problem
> is
> that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows
> Vista
> partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
> Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS version
> 3.0
> What can I do to get all my space back?

Although I have never tried it:

Vista's Disk Management plug-in allows you to resize partitions without
destroying the data.

Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try to
merge them with PM

"Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
> Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs of
> that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
> totally
> got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my problem
> is
> that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows
> Vista
> partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
> Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS version
> 3.0
> What can I do to get all my space back?

How do I partition is using Vista? It still gives me the error if I use PM on
Vista. Is there a special program that comes with Vista? And the free space
is not in a partition.
But I think I know what you are saying.
I put all the free space into a partition, then I go to vista right click
the drive and format it? I will try to do that!

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try to
> merge them with PM
>
> "Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
> > Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs of
> > that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
> > totally
> > got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my problem
> > is
> > that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows
> > Vista
> > partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
> > Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS version
> > 3.0
> > What can I do to get all my space back?
>
>
>

You can go into disk management (computer management/disk management) in
Vista and create and format your partioning of freespace there. Then see if
PM will merge them when they have the same version of NTFS.


"geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CDD82EF7-3060-4B6A-9084-7BF5ED05AB5C@microsoft.com...
> How do I partition is using Vista? It still gives me the error if I use PM
> on
> Vista. Is there a special program that comes with Vista? And the free
> space
> is not in a partition.
> But I think I know what you are saying.
> I put all the free space into a partition, then I go to vista right click
> the drive and format it? I will try to do that!
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try to
>> merge them with PM
>>
>> "Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
>> > Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs
>> > of
>> > that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
>> > totally
>> > got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my
>> > problem
>> > is
>> > that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows
>> > Vista
>> > partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
>> > Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS version
>> > 3.0
>> > What can I do to get all my space back?
>>
>>
>>

Good to hear. As far as I can remember it was the beta2 that was being
referred to a couple of months ago. There were a half dozen or more posts
that stated the same and linked elsewhere. I haven't used the feature.
Thanks for the clarification.


"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
news:uiKhxwk4GHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> You can go into disk management (computer management/disk management) in
> Vista and create and format your partioning of freespace there. Then see
> if PM will merge them when they have the same version of NTFS.
>
>
> "geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CDD82EF7-3060-4B6A-9084-7BF5ED05AB5C@microsoft.com...
>> How do I partition is using Vista? It still gives me the error if I use
>> PM on
>> Vista. Is there a special program that comes with Vista? And the free
>> space
>> is not in a partition.
>> But I think I know what you are saying.
>> I put all the free space into a partition, then I go to vista right click
>> the drive and format it? I will try to do that!
>>
>> "John Barnes" wrote:
>>
>>> Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try
>>> to
>>> merge them with PM
>>>
>>> "Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
>>> > Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs
>>> > of
>>> > that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
>>> > totally
>>> > got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my
>>> > problem
>>> > is
>>> > that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows
>>> > Vista
>>> > partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
>>> > Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS
>>> > version
>>> > 3.0
>>> > What can I do to get all my space back?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

According to Brian above, you should be able to use Disk Management in Vista
to incorporate the free space. Let us know your results.

"geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CDD82EF7-3060-4B6A-9084-7BF5ED05AB5C@microsoft.com...
> How do I partition is using Vista? It still gives me the error if I use PM
> on
> Vista. Is there a special program that comes with Vista? And the free
> space
> is not in a partition.
> But I think I know what you are saying.
> I put all the free space into a partition, then I go to vista right click
> the drive and format it? I will try to do that!
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try to
>> merge them with PM
>>
>> "Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
>> > Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs
>> > of
>> > that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
>> > totally
>> > got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my
>> > problem
>> > is
>> > that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows
>> > Vista
>> > partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
>> > Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS version
>> > 3.0
>> > What can I do to get all my space back?
>>
>>
>>

Ok, so I went into Disk Managment, and with my free space I created another
partition. Now Partition Magic wont run. It gives an error.
"Partitions Drive Letter could not be found"
I am out of ideas on how to add my HD space...
Do you guys have any clue?

"John Barnes" wrote:

> You can go into disk management (computer management/disk management) in
> Vista and create and format your partioning of freespace there. Then see if
> PM will merge them when they have the same version of NTFS.
>
>
> "geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CDD82EF7-3060-4B6A-9084-7BF5ED05AB5C@microsoft.com...
> > How do I partition is using Vista? It still gives me the error if I use PM
> > on
> > Vista. Is there a special program that comes with Vista? And the free
> > space
> > is not in a partition.
> > But I think I know what you are saying.
> > I put all the free space into a partition, then I go to vista right click
> > the drive and format it? I will try to do that!
> >
> > "John Barnes" wrote:
> >
> >> Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try to
> >> merge them with PM
> >>
> >> "Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
> >> > Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30 gigs
> >> > of
> >> > that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
> >> > totally
> >> > got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my
> >> > problem
> >> > is
> >> > that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my Windows
> >> > Vista
> >> > partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
> >> > Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS version
> >> > 3.0
> >> > What can I do to get all my space back?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

If I understand you have a partition with Vista on it and the new partition
following it. Using Disk Management, delete the new volume. Then right
click the Vista volume and select extend volume. Follow the prompts in the
Extend Volume Wizard to add the unallocated space to the Vista volume


"geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:473C4A46-8429-4FAF-8FE5-2DAF0AD6C93D@microsoft.com...
> Ok, so I went into Disk Managment, and with my free space I created
> another
> partition. Now Partition Magic wont run. It gives an error.
> "Partitions Drive Letter could not be found"
> I am out of ideas on how to add my HD space...
> Do you guys have any clue?
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> You can go into disk management (computer management/disk management) in
>> Vista and create and format your partioning of freespace there. Then see
>> if
>> PM will merge them when they have the same version of NTFS.
>>
>>
>> "geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CDD82EF7-3060-4B6A-9084-7BF5ED05AB5C@microsoft.com...
>> > How do I partition is using Vista? It still gives me the error if I use
>> > PM
>> > on
>> > Vista. Is there a special program that comes with Vista? And the free
>> > space
>> > is not in a partition.
>> > But I think I know what you are saying.
>> > I put all the free space into a partition, then I go to vista right
>> > click
>> > the drive and format it? I will try to do that!
>> >
>> > "John Barnes" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try
>> >> to
>> >> merge them with PM
>> >>
>> >> "Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30
>> >> > gigs
>> >> > of
>> >> > that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
>> >> > totally
>> >> > got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my
>> >> > problem
>> >> > is
>> >> > that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my
>> >> > Windows
>> >> > Vista
>> >> > partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
>> >> > Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS
>> >> > version
>> >> > 3.0
>> >> > What can I do to get all my space back?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

Yes completely correct! When I try that, it gives me an error. It says the
Vista partition does not have enough space.
"There is not enogh space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation"
Currently on my Vista partition I have 5 gigs free.
That's not enough?

"John Barnes" wrote:

> If I understand you have a partition with Vista on it and the new partition
> following it. Using Disk Management, delete the new volume. Then right
> click the Vista volume and select extend volume. Follow the prompts in the
> Extend Volume Wizard to add the unallocated space to the Vista volume
>
>
> "geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:473C4A46-8429-4FAF-8FE5-2DAF0AD6C93D@microsoft.com...
> > Ok, so I went into Disk Managment, and with my free space I created
> > another
> > partition. Now Partition Magic wont run. It gives an error.
> > "Partitions Drive Letter could not be found"
> > I am out of ideas on how to add my HD space...
> > Do you guys have any clue?
> >
> > "John Barnes" wrote:
> >
> >> You can go into disk management (computer management/disk management) in
> >> Vista and create and format your partioning of freespace there. Then see
> >> if
> >> PM will merge them when they have the same version of NTFS.
> >>
> >>
> >> "geoldr" <geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:CDD82EF7-3060-4B6A-9084-7BF5ED05AB5C@microsoft.com...
> >> > How do I partition is using Vista? It still gives me the error if I use
> >> > PM
> >> > on
> >> > Vista. Is there a special program that comes with Vista? And the free
> >> > space
> >> > is not in a partition.
> >> > But I think I know what you are saying.
> >> > I put all the free space into a partition, then I go to vista right
> >> > click
> >> > the drive and format it? I will try to do that!
> >> >
> >> > "John Barnes" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Why don't you partition and format the freespace using Vista. Then try
> >> >> to
> >> >> merge them with PM
> >> >>
> >> >> "Geoldr" <Geoldr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:3923ECFD-DBEF-4537-957C-311B990D603D@microsoft.com...
> >> >> > Ok, so I had Windows XP running on a 160 gig HD. I partitioned 30
> >> >> > gigs
> >> >> > of
> >> >> > that for Windows Vista when RC1 came out. So I installed it, then I
> >> >> > totally
> >> >> > got rid of XP because it dosent even compare to Vista. But now my
> >> >> > problem
> >> >> > is
> >> >> > that I have 130 gigs of free space that I cannot add on to my
> >> >> > Windows
> >> >> > Vista
> >> >> > partition! The error PartitionMagic gives me is
> >> >> > Vista NTFS is version 3.1 and the rest of your 130 gigs in NTFS
> >> >> > version
> >> >> > 3.0
> >> >> > What can I do to get all my space back?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>