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Heathen
May 7th, 2009, 08:37 PM
Okay, so here's whats up.

I had a bunch of extra space in my C so I shrunk it down and was going to extend it to my D. BUUUUT, what I assume happened is since I shrunk it from C, it can only be extended to C. When I click extend on D it is greyed out but not on C. So...

Has anyone had a similar experience or know how to fix it?
t3h m00kz
May 8th, 2009, 09:05 PM
My XP partition for my dual boot is 4 GB.

No, I don't know how to fix it. It's a PAIN IN THE ASS
InnerGoat
May 8th, 2009, 09:17 PM
What are you using? I've used EASEUS partition master (http://partition-tool.com/download.htm) (the free edition) and have had no problems with it.
Llama Juice
May 9th, 2009, 09:21 AM
I always partition manually.

There's some really nice tutorials out there where you just stick a magnet to the right part of the HDD to partition out a certain percentage of your drive. It's quick and easy, if I still had the link I'd post it but.... I can't find it :(
p0lar_bear
May 9th, 2009, 06:18 PM
I always partition manually.

There's some really nice tutorials out there where you just stick a magnet to the right part of the HDD to partition out a certain percentage of your drive. It's quick and easy, if I still had the link I'd post it but.... I can't find it :(

Do you also install your PCIe video cards into AGP slots backwards?
Llama Juice
May 9th, 2009, 07:46 PM
Do you also install your PCIe video cards into AGP slots backwards?

Takes a bit of force, but it works like a charm.
Cortexian
May 9th, 2009, 09:01 PM
You can't extend space from one drive to another... lol.

If you have some unpartitioned space on your C: drive, you can extend your partition on C: to use that unpartitioned space. You cannot create a partition in that unpartition space that shows up as an addition to another drive (which is what it sounds like you're trying to do).

If you use a 3rd party bootable CD partitioning tool, make sure you have your OS installation disk handy. 90% of the time you'll fuck up your installation and have to do a OS repair.

Basically you can only shrink and extend on the same drive, the feature is not able to "cross-drives".
Heathen
May 13th, 2009, 08:03 PM
No, okay now I have a bunch of unallocated space and an f:\

How do I move that 105gb of unallocated space from my D to my F?

its got nothing on it. Cant I just extend F to it? its greyed out.