Vista - How To Delete Extended Partition Containing Logical Volume?

In two days time I'm helping a friend with his laptop and one of the things I
want to do is delete the extended partition (and the logical volume it
contains) from his hard drive. I will then enlarge the remaining partition.

I seem to remember using Vista Disk Management before to delete a logical
volume but it wouldn't allow me to delete the Extended Partition? Can anyone
confirm that is the case and if so recommend something they've used
successfully to delete Extended Partitions under Vista.

I have Partition Magic 8.0 bootable CD but it is seven years old now and I'm
not sure it will work with the version of NTFS used in Vista.

Dell Boy wrote:=====================================
I don't think Partition Magic is compatibile with Vista.

Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

How to resize a partition in Windows Vista
http://tinyurl.com/2n5vdu
or...
http://vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/h...windows-vista/

And the following software may be worth a try:

EASEUS Partition Manager
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

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Hello Dell Boy,

This tutorial below can help show you how to do this for you. You will just need to delete the extended partition twice though before it becomes an unallocated partition.

Disk Management - Delete and Extend

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I will go further and state that Partition Magic is NOT compatible with a
drive that has been setup using the provisions included within Vista setup.
PM will state that there are errors on the disk. If you allow PM to "fix"
the errors you will have a massive lose of everything on the associated hard
drive - non recoverable!

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience



"John Inzer" <oobie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:14:11 -0700, Dell Boy wrote:
Gpated Live CD will do that.

"Dell Boy" <DellBoy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:75327778-172D-431C-8C61-5265D1A4B868@xxxxxxHi Dell Boy--

I just want to say absolutely to two comments.

Richard Urban pointed out PM is not made/or has not been updated to work in
Vista and Windows 7 and it has not. Symantec bought it and they seem to
have just abandoned it. Also anyone who used PM back in the days when Win
2K and XP were fresh, knows it can take an awfully long time when it does
work on XP and Windows OS's prior to XP.

Ray suggested G-Parted Live which comes from Linux Gnu and Gnome and it has
been a great help to me in resizing partitions of all types on notebooks
because the upgrade mechanism for Win 7 successively wants more and more HD
space each time you do it to expand its files. It's a great suggestion and
I highly recommend it. When you format with G-Parted it formats in seconds,
much faster than Disk Management in Windows does.

It's difficult and a lot of shifting around to actually add space with Disk
Management. The partitions have to be in a certain position. This is not
the case with G-Parted Live Disk.

One important tip that many people don't tell you you need to follow for
G-Parted to actually work:

When the G-Parted Partition Screen comes up, put your mouse in the lower
right hand corner and drag it to the width of your monitor or G-Parted's
changes might refuse to apply.

After you make your changes, you have to go to the top toolbar and click
"apply".

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...sta-partition/

http://lifehacker.com/software/parti...-cd-175024.php

Best,

CH

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:##T3tB1xJHA.1432@xxxxxxRichard thanks--

I didn't know that history. I have Peter Norton's book on Windows XP from
back in the days when I thought I had to own every book on the Win OS.
That's a curious paradox. If you're going to buy a company, or buy up
companies, and spend the money and resources to acquire them, it seems
paridoxically ridiculous then to abandon the products.

Peter Norton has given many millions to art museums in California and
Greece, etc. among other contributions, and sits on the boards of several
art museums, so I'm not sure how much periepigastric pain he's been feeling
the last few years. He seems to have adapted to the "good life" pretty
well.

Monk turned IT Magnate and Arts Benefactor buys Village Loft for $6.9
Million at the Greenwhich on West 13th (not superstitious)

Peter Norton Symphony Space

http://www.observer.com/2008/real-es...age-loft-6-8-m

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/refere...ton/index.html

http://peter-norton-family-foundatio...ly-foundation/

http://www.giarts.org/library_additi...?doc_id=438521


CH

Hi, Dell Boy.
Yes, Disk Management will happily remove the extended partition AFTER you
remove all the logical drives that it contains.

I've used DM ever since it first appeared back in Windows 2000, and haven't
needed Partition Magic or other such software since then.

If DM's Windows interface doesn’t work, use the DiskPart.exe shell, which
DM's Help file calls "using the command line". (I'm using Win7; I think
both DM and the Help file have changed somewhat from Vista.)

RC
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San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
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