Moving free space from one extended partition to the Vista partition

[Gordon]

seeing lots of conflicting advice and problems with this.
I have C: partition (Boot, Windows etc) and E: partition (data). I need to
move free space from E to C.
What is the consensus of opinion on here as to the best way to do this?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Gordon,

Are the two volumes contiguous? They must be next to each other as shown in
disk manager to do this. First you would shrink E:, then slide it so that
the free space is immediately behind C:. You would then expand C: to
encompass the free space. While you can do the shrinking and expanding with
Vista's disk manager, the slide operation has to be done with a third party
drive tool like BootitNG or Acronis' disk manager.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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

 

[Gordon]

Hi Gordon,

Are the two volumes contiguous? They must be next to each other as shown
in disk manager to do this. First you would shrink E:, then slide it so
that the free space is immediately behind C:. You would then expand C: to
encompass the free space. While you can do the shrinking and expanding
with Vista's disk manager, the slide operation has to be done with a third
party drive tool like BootitNG or Acronis' disk manager.

Thanks for that - I sorted it this way:
Copied all the data from E to an external HDD. Removed E partition in Disk
manager. Re-sized C partition, re-created E partition. Copied data back to
E.
Job done!