Solved Partitioning drive

My drive currently looks like this:


I would like to take the unallocated space and Free space and turn them into a 40GB partition or otherwise add about 20GB each to the C: and E: drives.

I tried the partition software here, but it wouldn't let add the free space and Unallocated space together. It would only let me format them into seperate partitions. It did say though that the Unallocated space is a primary partition, and the free space is a logical partition, if this makes any difference.

The drive is 2 x 500GB drives in RAID 0, and I'm running Vista Business x64. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks

Dave

Hi,

Yes that is what the problem is.

The dark green rectangle is an "Extended partition". You cannot alter the boundaries of it.

You can either

1. delete it to turn it into unallocated space ( you would lose all your data, so copy it off first )

2. Use a program that will change it to a Primary partition without data loss. You might check if the software you are using will do that, by rt clicking the Extended partition and see if the option is there.

Otherwise, the program you are using will probably let you merge the UNALLOCATED space with the C partition. You may well find you need to do a startup repair after doing that to C as it is the System and Boot partition.

It will probably also let you merge the FREE space with the E drive ( as they are both within the Extended partition). You should not have any difficulty doing this bit.

Hope it helps

SIW2

SIW2 said:

Otherwise, the program you are using will probably let you merge the UNALLOCATED space with the C partition. You may well find you need to do a startup repair after doing that to C as it is the System and Boot partition.

It will probably also let you merge the FREE space with the E drive ( as they are both within the Extended partition). You should not have any difficulty doing this bit.

Click to expand...

I've done that now, and it seems to be working okay. It did take about 24hrs for the program to process merging the partitions, and then said there might be some file errors when it finished, but I've run chkdsk on both the partitions and there didn't seem to be any errors.

Thanks for your help.

Dave