How To Delete Extended Partition Containing Logical Volume?

[Dell Boy]

In two days time I'm helping a friend with his laptop and one of the things I
want to do is delete the extended partition (and the logical volume it
contains) from his hard drive. I will then enlarge the remaining partition.

I seem to remember using Vista Disk Management before to delete a logical
volume but it wouldn't allow me to delete the Extended Partition? Can anyone
confirm that is the case and if so recommend something they've used
successfully to delete Extended Partitions under Vista.

I have Partition Magic 8.0 bootable CD but it is seven years old now and I'm
not sure it will work with the version of NTFS used in Vista.

 

[John Inzer]

In two days time I'm helping a friend with his laptop and one of the
things I want to do is delete the extended partition (and the logical
volume it contains) from his hard drive. I will then enlarge the
remaining partition.

I seem to remember using Vista Disk Management before to delete a
logical volume but it wouldn't allow me to delete the Extended
Partition? Can anyone confirm that is the case and if so recommend
something they've used successfully to delete Extended Partitions
under Vista.

I have Partition Magic 8.0 bootable CD but it is seven years old now
and I'm not sure it will work with the version of NTFS used in Vista.

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I don't think Partition Magic is compatibile with Vista.

Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

How to resize a partition in Windows Vista
http://tinyurl.com/2n5vdu
or...
http://vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-windows-vista/

And the following software may be worth a try:

EASEUS Partition Manager
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

--


John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Richard Urban]

I will go further and state that Partition Magic is NOT compatible with a
drive that has been setup using the provisions included within Vista setup.
PM will state that there are errors on the disk. If you allow PM to "fix"
the errors you will have a massive lose of everything on the associated hard
drive - non recoverable!

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

 

[ray]

In two days time I'm helping a friend with his laptop and one of the
things I want to do is delete the extended partition (and the logical
volume it contains) from his hard drive. I will then enlarge the
remaining partition.

I seem to remember using Vista Disk Management before to delete a
logical volume but it wouldn't allow me to delete the Extended
Partition? Can anyone confirm that is the case and if so recommend
something they've used successfully to delete Extended Partitions under
Vista.

I have Partition Magic 8.0 bootable CD but it is seven years old now and
I'm not sure it will work with the version of NTFS used in Vista.

Gpated Live CD will do that.

 

[Chad Harris]

In two days time I'm helping a friend with his laptop and one of the
things I
want to do is delete the extended partition (and the logical volume it
contains) from his hard drive. I will then enlarge the remaining
partition.

I seem to remember using Vista Disk Management before to delete a logical
volume but it wouldn't allow me to delete the Extended Partition? Can
anyone
confirm that is the case and if so recommend something they've used
successfully to delete Extended Partitions under Vista.

I have Partition Magic 8.0 bootable CD but it is seven years old now and
I'm
not sure it will work with the version of NTFS used in Vista.

Hi Dell Boy--

I just want to say absolutely to two comments.

Richard Urban pointed out PM is not made/or has not been updated to work in
Vista and Windows 7 and it has not. Symantec bought it and they seem to
have just abandoned it. Also anyone who used PM back in the days when Win
2K and XP were fresh, knows it can take an awfully long time when it does
work on XP and Windows OS's prior to XP.

Ray suggested G-Parted Live which comes from Linux Gnu and Gnome and it has
been a great help to me in resizing partitions of all types on notebooks
because the upgrade mechanism for Win 7 successively wants more and more HD
space each time you do it to expand its files. It's a great suggestion and
I highly recommend it. When you format with G-Parted it formats in seconds,
much faster than Disk Management in Windows does.

It's difficult and a lot of shifting around to actually add space with Disk
Management. The partitions have to be in a certain position. This is not
the case with G-Parted Live Disk.

One important tip that many people don't tell you you need to follow for
G-Parted to actually work:

When the G-Parted Partition Screen comes up, put your mouse in the lower
right hand corner and drag it to the width of your monitor or G-Parted's
changes might refuse to apply.

After you make your changes, you have to go to the top toolbar and click
"apply".

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/

http://lifehacker.com/software/partition/download-of-the-day-gparted-live-cd-175024.php

Best,

CH

 

[Richard Urban]

Symantec has a history of buying up companies that have superior products
and then abandoning the products.

It started in the early 1990's when they bought Norton out. Norton Tools was
far superior to anything that Symantec had to offer. If I were Peter Norton
I would be feeding an ulcer over what I had allowed to happen - all profits
from the sale aside.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

 

[Chad Harris]

Symantec has a history of buying up companies that have superior products
and then abandoning the products.

It started in the early 1990's when they bought Norton out. Norton Tools
was far superior to anything that Symantec had to offer. If I were Peter
Norton I would be feeding an ulcer over what I had allowed to happen - all
profits from the sale aside.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

Richard thanks--

I didn't know that history. I have Peter Norton's book on Windows XP from
back in the days when I thought I had to own every book on the Win OS.
That's a curious paradox. If you're going to buy a company, or buy up
companies, and spend the money and resources to acquire them, it seems
paridoxically ridiculous then to abandon the products.

Peter Norton has given many millions to art museums in California and
Greece, etc. among other contributions, and sits on the boards of several
art museums, so I'm not sure how much periepigastric pain he's been feeling
the last few years. He seems to have adapted to the "good life" pretty
well.

Monk turned IT Magnate and Arts Benefactor buys Village Loft for $6.9
Million at the Greenwhich on West 13th (not superstitious)

Peter Norton Symphony Space

http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/monk-turned-magnate-peter-norton-buys-village-loft-6-8-m

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/peter_norton/index.html

http://peter-norton-family-foundation.idilogic.aidpage.com/peter-norton-family-foundation/

http://www.giarts.org/library_additional/library_additional_show.htm?doc_id=438521


CH

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Chad.

Thanks for those Peter Norton links! I've known his name since the early
80's, even before I bought my first MS-DOS computer, and have used Norton
Utilities - especially DiskEdit - from about 1985 until my Norton Internet
Security 2005 subscription expired. (I got tired of waiting for Symantec to
make NIS work with 64-bit WinXP; since my subscription expired, I've been
"running bare" and found that I don't need it anyhow.)

I had no idea of his interesting personal history or his philanthropy. Very
interesting reading!

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi, Chad.

Thanks for those Peter Norton links! I've known his name since the early
80's, even before I bought my first MS-DOS computer, and have used Norton
Utilities - especially DiskEdit - from about 1985 until my Norton Internet
Security 2005 subscription expired. (I got tired of waiting for Symantec
to make NIS work with 64-bit WinXP; since my subscription expired, I've
been "running bare" and found that I don't need it anyhow.)

I had no idea of his interesting personal history or his philanthropy.
Very interesting reading!

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000

R.C.--

He's a pretty amazing guy. It's great that he has had so many years outside
the IT bubble where he excelled. He's a bit of a rebel who is thoroughly
enjoying himself, and obviously a very gifted Renaissance guy who is having
a very good time and constructively helping the art world.

CH

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Dell Boy.

I seem to remember using Vista Disk Management before to delete a logical
volume but it wouldn't allow me to delete the Extended Partition?

Yes, Disk Management will happily remove the extended partition AFTER you
remove all the logical drives that it contains.

I've used DM ever since it first appeared back in Windows 2000, and haven't
needed Partition Magic or other such software since then.

If DM's Windows interface doesn’t work, use the DiskPart.exe shell, which
DM's Help file calls "using the command line". (I'm using Win7; I think
both DM and the Help file have changed somewhat from Vista.)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000

 

[Dell Boy]

Many thanks to everyone for the advice and the free educatinal bit as well!

I will try using Disk Management first and if that doesn't work I'll use
Gpated Live.