Vista - Hard drive management - extend

I have one physical hard drive which came delivered with my Dell computer.
The D drive is 10 GB and I would like to double that.

When I right click on that drive (in Computer Management Console \ Storage),
the Extend option is grayed out.

I thought, OK, maybe I first have to Shrink the size of Drive C (228 GB) and
then the option to Extend Drive D will be available.

That didn't work. Suggestions?

Your D drive is a factory Restore Partition provided by Dell to recover your
computer to a factory shipped condition and should not be used for anything
else.

If you made recovery DVDs, or order them from Dell, you can delete the partition
and extend C to take up the recovered space. Or you can shrink C (although you
might have limited success with this because of the page file) and create a
larger D volume. I believe D cannot be extended as it is now because it is not
NTSF formatted,

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"Dave Horne" <dave.horne@home.nl> wrote in message
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>I have one physical hard drive which came delivered with my Dell computer. The
>D drive is 10 GB and I would like to double that.
>
> When I right click on that drive (in Computer Management Console \ Storage),
> the Extend option is grayed out.
>
> I thought, OK, maybe I first have to Shrink the size of Drive C (228 GB) and
> then the option to Extend Drive D will be available.
>
> That didn't work. Suggestions?

Gentlemen, thanks to both of you for your answers.

I will leave Drive D alone ... I can't extend it even by first reducing
Drive C.

The only reason for extending Dive D, the weekly backups to Drive D fail
after a few weeks since there's not enough room. I wind up deleting the
backup files and doing a total backup. I realize if Drive fails, Drive D
fails with it. I was just hoping to have an easy solution to extend Drive
D.

I'll post at the Dell forum and see what Dell suggests ... thopugh I expect
to hear the same that you guys suggested.

Thanks, Dave Horne