[Locke]

Well, I recently installed an operating system on a little 25 GB partition I made out of my hard drive. And now I know that the department of the school I'm in has an MSDNAA account, and will provide software to students that register. (I'm going to get Windows 7 Professional from them.) So I was going to delete the partition, just like I've done with Ubuntu in the past (when I reinstalled it at times), and I was gonna give that 25 GB back to my Vista partition.

But now...I can't extend the Vista partition to include that 25 GB of space, WHICH SUCKS, because that's 25 GB down the proverbial drain...and I have no idea why.

I'm a bit of a beginner at this, but I just don't know why it won't let me extend the main partition to include that 25 GB.

This post has been edited by Locke: 12 September 2009 - 09:31 AM

[musya]

You shared that you got an illegal copy?

I don't know that a standard OS can join partitions?
But I heard this helps in joining partitions:
http://www.soft411.c...-partition.html

[Codey09]

Is the empy partition before the Vista position or after it?

The reason I ask is I had a similar issue, and found that if the the empty partion is before the one you want to extend it won't do it, it will only extend forwards and not backwards.

[Locke]

Aww that's crap. I don't know if it was before or after it. How can I tell?

[TheNobleSword]

Yes, the unallocated space must be in the right position for vista to expand, I cannot remember weather it is before or after. I am not one my computer right now, but I am pretty sure that when you go to disk management in Vista the empty space should be on the right side of the Vista partition. You cannot move it within vista you need to use other software. I suggest gParted.

[no2pencil]

Locke, on 11 Sep, 2009 - 11:33 PM, said:

But now...I can't extend the Vista partition to include that 25 GB of space, WHICH SUCKS, because that's 25 GB down the proverbial drain...and I have no idea why.

Boot to Ubuntu -> Gparted

[TheNobleSword]

Yes, it is cool how they now include it on the live disk. It is a great tool to have.

[Locke]

no2pencil, on 12 Sep, 2009 - 11:42 PM, said:

Locke, on 11 Sep, 2009 - 11:33 PM, said:

But now...I can't extend the Vista partition to include that 25 GB of space, WHICH SUCKS, because that's 25 GB down the proverbial drain...and I have no idea why.

Boot to Ubuntu -> Gparted

Yeah...I did. And it still won't let me add the 25 GB I have back to Vista. Let's me do it just fine to the Ubuntu partition...but not to Vista.

Screeny of GParted as it stands...



The unallocated space can only be added to Ubuntu or my recovery partition (which I found is corrupted or something. I can't boot to that...at all, it seems.)

Anyway, that 25 GB is just sitting where Vista can't get to it.

[AdamSpeight2008]

Vista requires the 25GB of space to be next the partition the o.s. is if want to extend it.
You can still use though.
Format with the same format as the Vista Partition
Use it for User Folders.

Treat it as second hard disc for your documents.
(Then if you have to reinstall Vista you not lost them.)


If it were on second disc I would have suggested use it for the cache.

This post has been edited by AdamSpeight2008: 13 September 2009 - 11:18 AM

[Locke]

Yeah, that sounds OK...but it's not the ideal situation.

[no2pencil]

So with that section unallocated, you can't drag the Vista section?

You're best bet would be to take the drive out, & put it onto another machine. Use dd to make an iso image of your Vista partition, & then drop that onto the local machine. It'll create an image that's the same size of the partition. Then reformat your drive (or grab a new drive, if you fear loosing your data), & drop the image onto the newly formatted drive. Then adjust the partitions with gparted like you want, then create the rest of the partitions.

[Locke]

...Huhwhat?

[no2pencil]

If you lived closer I'd just say bring it over & I'll fix it for you. lol

Basically what I'm saying is make a copy of the drive & start over.

[Locke]

Well, I have a very nice solution to just get my drive back to normal. Use GParted to give that 25 GB to Ubuntu...uninstall Ubuntu (delete it), then combine that 35 GB partition back with Vista. I'll have to do some recovery CD work to get the bootloader back to using the Windows one instead of GRUB, because GRUB gets pissed off easily.

But my recovery drive is fried somehow...something corrupted it somewhere along the way. So...uhh...I'm gonna postpone any more hard drive work until I know I can fix stuff using the recovery CD if I screw it up.