Partition management in Vista 64bit

[asss]

I have a PC dual booting from two drives set up as a single disc using
raid.

I have 3 partitions set on the drive, the 1st and largest with XP, the
2nd and fairly small with Vista Ultimate 64bit, and the 3rd the smallest
just as a 'spare' logical drive.

Now I am happy with Vista I want to change the partitions size, giving
Vista the lion's share of the drive.

I have managed to reduce the XP partition size and now have a big chunk
of unallocated space before the Vista partition.

How can I extend the Vista partition to use up the free space? The
extend function in disk management won't do it in that direction.

Any suggestions?

Cheers.

 

[Andy]

Hi,

I would suggest you use something like Acronis partition manager, it is
reasonably cheap, i have found it reliable and it works on 64 bit systems
(mine is)

Andy

 

[mxh]

I have a PC dual booting from two drives set up as a single disc using
raid.

I have 3 partitions set on the drive, the 1st and largest with XP, the
2nd and fairly small with Vista Ultimate 64bit, and the 3rd the smallest
just as a 'spare' logical drive.

Now I am happy with Vista I want to change the partitions size, giving
Vista the lion's share of the drive.

I have managed to reduce the XP partition size and now have a big chunk
of unallocated space before the Vista partition.

How can I extend the Vista partition to use up the free space? The
extend function in disk management won't do it in that direction.

Any suggestions?

Acronis Disk Director will handle that non-destructively:

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/

There are other 3rd party solutions as well. Just be sure to get one that
is Vista Compatible. BING (BootitNG) used to have a fully functional trail
version that lasted for 30 days, but you'd have to check to see if that is
still the case:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/


mxh

 

[asss]

Thanks for the info.

Acronis Disk Director did half the job then failed, but it had moved the
Vista partition before the free space.

Luckily everything was intact, and I used the Vista drive manager to
extend the partion into the free space.

And everything seems to be working fine.

Cheers.