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Moving free space from one extended partition to the Vista partition

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by Gordon, Nov 5, 2008.

  1. Gordon

    Gordon Guest

    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?
     
  2. Rick Rogers

    Rick Rogers Guest

    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 -

    My thoughts


    "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
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    > 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? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
     
  3. Gordon

    Gordon Guest

    "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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    > 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.
    ><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    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!
     
  4. sarawu

    sarawu Guest

    A FREE partition tool works fine to extend C drive without data loss and
    reinstall OS.:cool:

    Here is a detailed solution:

    'FREE Resize/Move FAT32 & NTFS Partitions in Windows
    2000/XP/Vista/Server 2003, 2008. Enlarge or Reduce Partition - EASEUS
    Partition Master Manual' ()


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