Increasing Partition Size in Vista Ultimate...

[ross m. greenberg]

I'm trying to go entirely Vista. I have two partitions, the C.: partition is my Vista partition. The D.: partition it's what's left of my XP installation. I wish to get rid of the XP installation and just have one partition that is Vista. I have updated via Windows update, run a "CHKDSK" did a cleanup on the current Vista partition and back things up on my external USB using Norton ghost.

What is the best method of extending the C: partition? Do I simply un-allocate the D: partition and then extend the C: Vista partition? Do I have to format the D: partition?

Ross

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

You simply run diskmgmt.msc (disk manager) and delete the D: volume provided
it is not designated as the system volume. Then expand C: to encompass the
free space. However:

- If D: is designate as the system volume, you will need to do a boot
recovery by booting the Vista disk and running the recovery console.

- If D: is not immediately located after C: as seen in disk manager, you
will need a third party partitioning utility to manipulate (slide) the
volumes so that the resulting free space it. A volume can only be extended
to free space after it, not before it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

I'm trying to go entirely Vista. I have two partitions, the C.: partition is
my Vista partition. The D.: partition it's what's left of my XP
installation. I wish to get rid of the XP installation and just have one
partition that is Vista. I have updated via Windows update, run a "CHKDSK"
did a cleanup on the current Vista partition and back things up on my
external USB using Norton ghost.

What is the best method of extending the C: partition? Do I simply
un-allocate the D: partition and then extend the C: Vista partition? Do I
have to format the D: partition?

Ross

 

[JohnJ]

I'm trying to go entirely Vista. I have two partitions, the C.: partition is
my Vista partition. The D.: partition it's what's left of my XP
installation. I wish to get rid of the XP installation and just have one
partition that is Vista. I have updated via Windows update, run a "CHKDSK"
did a cleanup on the current Vista partition and back things up on my
external USB using Norton ghost.

What is the best method of extending the C: partition? Do I simply
un-allocate the D: partition and then extend the C: Vista partition? Do I
have to format the D: partition?

Ross

One quick way is to use the free EASEUS Partition Master 3.5 Home Edition
found at http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

I was wary of using the built in partition application Vista offers. The
EASEUS program worked great for me. I had a 160 GB disk from my Win98 days
which could only recognize and format 120 GB. With EASUS I was able to just
extend the partition next to the unallocated space to claim the 25 GB. I
thought that was very cool.

Installing the program was easy and Help in the menu bar offers a pdf file
for a User's Guide.

You'd probably just delete the partition and then extend the C partition
over the area.

John

 

[Mike Torello]

And unfortunately that one is not free

You won't find a freebie for x64 so dry your tears and start saving.

 

[Chad Harris]

I can't see your OP. I can only guess you want to increase the size of a
partition but who knows. You can do it free with a program that works very
well for me--G-Parted Live. I've been using it with 32 bit and 64 bit Win 7
and Vista. It works on both.

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

CH