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Transferring Disk Space
Looking at smithsonians reply has just bought something to mind. Can you
create another partition? If so create I the same size as your D drive, copy everything over from D: to the new partition, then delete the D: drive/partition and try to extend again. If it extends you can then copy back any information you need to your C: drive. -- -- John Barnett MVP Windows XP Associate Expert Windows Desktop Experience Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail/post.. "Sean" wrote in message ... Again - THANK YOU very much . Unfortunatley D drive is loaded with a ton o'stuff. So I will look into one of your software ideas. Thanks again for your time "John Barnett MVP" wrote: Strangely disk management on Vista can be an utter pain at times; personally I think it has a will of its own. If partition D: (Unallocated space - in other words empty) is butted directly up to partition C: then you have contiguous space available for extending. If there is a partition between C: and D: the you don't have any free space to extend in to. You can't extend the partition, in the above scenario, by jumping over an already created partition. Because Disk Management has a will of its own, it can sometimes, depending upon its mood, gray out certain options. When this happens you, sadly, cannot proceed, using disk management. Another option would be to buy a third party partitioning application and use it to 'resize' the C: partition (Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 Suite is one such application that I keep by my side, as is Acronis Disk Director.) There may even be a 'free' partitioning application that will also do the job. I cannot, however, pass comment on any free partitioning applications not having actually used them myself; maybe someone else who has tried any free partitioning applications would care to give us the benefit of their experience? That leaves DiskPart as smithsonian suggested. Personally using commands from the command prompt can be a little intimidating, however, I did find these instructions which illustrate quite well how to proceed: http://vistarewired.com/2007/04/07/h...nt-doesnt-work. Can I stress that you ensure you have backed up any files/folders that are important to you and that you are fully aware how to return your PC to factory conditions, via the recovery disk (or partition) supplied by your PC manufacturer prior to attempting to extend the partition via DiskPart as once the command is given and Vista undertakes the extension, should anything go wrong, you may end up with an unbootable PC. If DiskPart cannot extend the partition, the it will say so and no alterations will be made. I'm sorry to sound like a 'bringer of doom' but it is better you know the risks than go blindly ahead and discover them later. -- -- John Barnett MVP Windows XP Associate Expert Windows Desktop Experience Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail/post.. "Sean" wrote in message ... Thank you John for getting back to me. I was able to put the unallocated back to where I got it from, but the "extend" option on the C drive is not an option, only on the D drive. They allocated 20G for the C drive but I am constantly trying to make sure it doesn't fill up. I was just hoping to get a bit more space into it. "John Barnett MVP" wrote: Sean you would probably be better using the Extend option (assuming the free space is right next to the C: partition) from within disk management (control paneladministrative toolscomputer managementdisk management) Perhaps this link will give you a little more help: http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/02/19/h...nd-and-shrink/ Alternatively you can extend the partition by using the Windows Vista DVD (boxed version - not recovery disk) by following the instructions on my website: http://vistasupport.mvps.org/extend_..._vista_dvd.htm -- -- John Barnett MVP Windows XP Associate Expert Windows Desktop Experience Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail/post.. "Sean" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me how I would "transfer" disk space from my partioned D drive to C drive? Just tp try, I've already "unallocated" 1G, and now have no clue what to do with it - lol (I did not request the drive be partioned, and now apparently I'm stuck with it). HEEELP!!! |
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Transferring Disk Space
Yes for some unknown reason the disk manager does have some peculiarities'
Personally I prefer to use third party partitioning software. -- -- John Barnett MVP Windows XP Associate Expert Windows Desktop Experience Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail/post.. "Smithsonian" wrote in message ... that doesnt always work for some reason. Usually when i try to extend my C: it disables extend option. "John Barnett MVP" wrote in message ... Smithsonian, by the contents of Sean's post I think 'diskpart' would be far to complex for him to safely use. Assuming the 'free space' is right next to the C: drive he would do better using the 'extend' option from disk management. -- -- John Barnett MVP Windows XP Associate Expert Windows Desktop Experience Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail/post.. "Smithsonian" wrote in message ... Win key+r type diskpart If you are prompted to run this program run it To find your volume use list volume then when you find the one you want to add space to type: select volume # then type: extend SIZE=N Where N is is the number of MB 1024mb = 1gb (just a note) "Sean" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me how I would "transfer" disk space from my partioned D drive to C drive? Just tp try, I've already "unallocated" 1G, and now have no clue what to do with it - lol (I did not request the drive be partioned, and now apparently I'm stuck with it). HEEELP!!! |
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