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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? |
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Hard drive management - extend
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, -- I Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS! "Dave Horne" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Hard drive management - extend
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:17:56 +0200, "Dave Horne"
wrote: 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? Most branded computers ship with a so-called recovery partition. Best advice, leave it alone! It is the only life saver you system probably came with. Example you probably didn't get a Microsoft Vista DVD did you? So if you ever have to repair your system if you mess with the partition that is suppose to be able to recover your system and restore it to it's original out of the box condition, you're screwed. You are correct in that in order to expand the size of one partition you need to get the space from another partition or from unallocated space (non assigned disk space on a hard drive). Since you have only one hard drive you gain nothing in the way of better performance by carving it up into other partitions. With hard drives as cheap as they are you would be better off adding an additional hard drive or if you must fiddle, leave the D drive alone and just create another drive from excess UNUSED space on C. It is generally easier and SAFER to use third party partition software. Just be sure whatever you pick is Vista certified. I simply don't trust Microsoft to do a decent job with something that critical. If you want to be a river boat gambler, reduce the size of "C", which should create some unallocated space, then once that job is done and you confirm that Vista now sees the allocated space make a new partition from it leaving D alone. So in your example you would end up with something like this: C: 30 GB D: 10 GB E: 180 GB NEVER short change your root directory. It will continue to eat up space by default from normal system activity. The worst thing you can do for performance it trying to make Vista run in a shoehorned space. So you should allow at least 20 GB for the OS and swap file, then a good margin for growth. I just used a rounded up figure for E, it should be the size of whatever is left over. |
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Hard drive management - extend
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 |
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Hard drive management - extend
I know this thread has existed for a long time, but there are many people may want to find a way safely and flexibly extend the system partition rather than use build in disk management. And I noted on this thread have not provide the flexible and easy way to extend the partition. Before you may know Partition Magic but now it has been out of date, and now there have a alternative software AOMEI Partition Assistant which could manage this flexibly and safely. It is worth to try this software.learn more on this link: http://www.extend-partition.com
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Hard drive management - extend
REFORMAT YOUR COMPUTER AND INSTALL OPEN SOURCE LINUX UBUNTU! JUST FYI! THREAD CLOSED! DO NOT MAKE ANY MORE REPLIES TO THIS POST OR ELSE I WILL ASK YOU HOW YOUR MALE VAGINA IS DOING WHILE QUOTING YOU BY YOUR NAME.
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