Problems extending my Vista partition

[Todd]

I had Vista & XP on partitioned drives, and now I just want Vista. So,
I formatted the XP drive and my plan was to shrink that drive, and
expand my vista drive. Didn't work.

I'm using the Computer Management tool Vista has and it won't let me
extend the drive Vista is on! I have all of this unallocated space and
can't do anything with it.

Any ideas?

 

[Jonathan Yaniv]

Ive had a similar problem, I don't know how to fix it.

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[Sly Dog]

Ive had a similar problem, I don't know how to fix it.

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Todd,

Do you have contiguous unallocated space at the end of your VISTA partition?

 

[Richard Urban]

Unallocated space at the front (left) of the partition can not be
assimilated into the Vista partition. Use a 3rd party disk manager such as
Acronis Disk Management Suite.

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[Guest]

is this a XP recovery partition that was created by the computer manafucterer?

 

[Chris J Dixon]

Unallocated space at the front (left) of the partition can not be
assimilated into the Vista partition. Use a 3rd party disk manager such as
Acronis Disk Management Suite.

Which version is compatible with Vista?

Chris

 

[BSchnur]

Unallocated space at the front (left) of the partition can not be

assimilated into the Vista partition.

And here I thought Microsoft was a full Borg emulation module?????

 

[Richard Urban]

I am dual booting now. I got hold of the latest version of Acronis Disk
Director Suite and installed it on Windows XP. I then created the Acronis
boot up CD.

When I have to work with the partitions I boot from the CD and do my
modifications from there. So far I have not run into any strange happenings.

I wanted to shrink then Vista partition from 60 gig to 30 gig. I first tried
using Vista Disk Management. I could only get down to 42 gig due to being
blocked by unmovable files on the Vista partition. After booting into the
Acronis Disk Director Suite I was able to shrink the partition down to my
desired 30 gig.

The partition survived the operation and I have been using Vista RTM for the
past 2 months with no strange occurrences.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!