AndyD Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I thought I was going to be able to extend the volume after shrinking another partition through disk management. I'm not getting the option to do so though. Is there any app that is known to work ok within windows 7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 23, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 23, 2009 I think EASEUS Partition Master will do that with Windows 7 RC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 looks like it's not free if it's for a 64 bit OS. 399 is extreme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 23, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 23, 2009 Oh, that sucks. Sorry, I didn't see that. Perhaps GParted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knightwolf20024 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 just use the windows cd , when you go to the setup process you are able to select the drive you want to install it on you go to advance options and extend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 23, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 23, 2009 just use the windows cd , when you go to the setup process you are able to select the drive you want to install it on you go to advance options and extend it. Cool, I didn't realize you could extend partitions from the Windows CD. In that case ignore my previous suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejn Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Can't you use a Gpart live CD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIE Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Delete the other partitions then you can extend the first partition, you can't shrink a second partition to extend the first because shrinking a partition takes the space of the end, clearly a pain though if you have alot of data on the partition(s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share Posted May 24, 2009 I'll give gparted a try but was afraid of messing with the partitions outside of windows and then having windows 7 act up SIE - the option to extend is grayed out. Not sure if it's because the partition is the OS partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Acronis disk director works with fine with Vista so it should work with 7 as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIE Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 I'll give gparted a try but was afraid of messing with the partitions outside of windows and then having windows 7 act upSIE - the option to extend is grayed out. Not sure if it's because the partition is the OS partition As said m8, you can't extend a partition if it has partitons after it, you would have to delete the other partitons then extend it into the unallocated space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 As said m8, you can't extend a partition if it has partitons after it, you would have to delete the other partitons then extend it into the unallocated space You are quite wrong my friend, iPartition is quite capable of doing that, as long as there is enough free space for it to move the data on the drive where it needs to be, its a Mac App but the Bootable CD works fine with PC's Acronis can also do this but not as well and i have had some failures with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share Posted May 24, 2009 You are quite wrong my friend, iPartition is quite capable of doing that, as long as there is enough free space for it to move the data on the drive where it needs to be, its a Mac App but the Bootable CD works fine with PC'sAcronis can also do this but not as well and i have had some failures with it. He's referring to the built in tool in Vista / Win7 As said m8, you can't extend a partition if it has partitons after it, you would have to delete the other partitons then extend it into the unallocated space Ok. So here's the dilemma - I had shrunken down the vista partition to merge into win7. I honestly don't see myself ever going back to Vista - do I just set Win 7 as the active partition and delete the Vista partition? I think the boot files are still on that partition though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) ok so you had Vista, then split your disk and installed 7, now you want to merge the old partition into the new 7 one correct? if so you need to do this from a boot enviroment, i never liked using using the command line stuff from Windows Cd's because i never got the result i wanted. why did you shrink the vista partition if you were gonna just merge it? i would set 7 as active yes and then delete vista partition, but then you need increase the 7 partition to take up the left over unused space, ive tried to do that with Win-cd command line but it never worked, using a utility like acronis or iPartition does all the steps necessary to make it work exactly how you want. ive made a bin/cue of my iPartition bootable DVD and i can upload it to my website so you can burn it to a DVD using Windows if you want, it is 1.37gb tho got a fast connection? nevermind zipped it up and its only 499mb Edited May 24, 2009 by Phantom Helix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIE Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 You are quite wrong my friend, iPartition is quite capable of doing that, as long as there is enough free space for it to move the data on the drive where it needs to be, its a Mac App but the Bootable CD works fine with PC'sAcronis can also do this but not as well and i have had some failures with it. No, i'm quite right my friend when it comes to the built in Windows tools, 3rd party tools work the same way they just do it diffrently, they will move data from the begining of the second partition to make space to extend the first partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Listen, i really do not want to get into a ****ing match, but i have done what he wants to do dozens of times and i offered a way for him to do it. if you want to say im wrong then fine, you help him, i don't see you giving him a way to do it tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIE Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Listen, i really do not want to get into a ****ing match, but i have done what he wants to do dozens of times and i offered a way for him to do it.if you want to say im wrong then fine, you help him, i don't see you giving him a way to do it tho I think my posts explained clearly how to solve his issue without having to go and buy software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunjabusiness Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 The best solution, if you are sure you want to blow out the Vista partition, is to backup the Win7 partition to another drive, repartition the original one and restore 7 to it. DriveImage XML from Runtime Software will do this nicely and it will run from a BART PE bootable CD so you can do all you need. In fact, I have done this several times. I had the exact same situation as you. Never going back to Vista. The real PITA in this scenario is if you wanted to keep Vista too - then the bootmgr weirdness really gets in the way. VistaBoot Pro can help there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted May 26, 2009 Author Share Posted May 26, 2009 So I ended up taking a chance with gparted as I was already messing around with creating a multiboot usb drive when I noticed Ubuntu 9.04 includes it. Anyway, it worked but not without errors. I was greeted by some error about the system being corrupted. I forget the text. Anyway, I was able to repair the boot system by using the RC disc. For a second there I thought I was screwed because I thought I had thrown away the disc but alas I found it. Just needed to also checkdsk as well but other than I'm in my new extended partition :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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