HD Partition question

[XD]

Howdy all
I have a 160gb drive,its split into two partitions,first 95gb and second is
57gb.First is drive e and second is drive f,i have vista installed into
drive f which shows as primary/boot/active,the blank 97gb is drive e which
just lists as primary partition. I am using computer management to try and
extend drive f to take drive e's space but i just get a disk out of space
message.Is there a way to do this or do i have to just reinstall and
partition from the installer?Thanks!

 

[John Barnes]

Have you tried deleting drive e first and then expanding drive f to include
the freespace?

 

[XD]

Yep,it will only let me expand to drives after it,it wont let me expand
backwards to the partition before it.

 

[John Barnes]

Looks like a third party partition product. Don't know of any that install
on Vista, but there are a number that run from a bootable floppy or CD.
Ranish Partition Manager has been mentioned here a number of times. Never
used it. For sale there is Acronis, PartitionMagic, PartitionCommander etc.

 

[XD]

I am using the computer management feature on vista,not a 3rd party product

 

[John Barnes]

Sorry, I meant that it looks like you need to use a third party partition
product. As I said I haven't used Ranish but it has been favourably
mentioned here. http://www.ranish.com/part/
If it doesn't work, like you said - reinstall