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Tengwar3

01-03-2009, 08:23 PM

I have tried through many means to get to extend XP's hard drive partition space of 15 Gb to 35 Gb with an unallocated space that i have of 20Gb. I am doing a tri-booting between Vista Ultimate 32, Ubuntu 32, and XP Pro 64. I have installed a lot of graphical programs and it seems that i need more space for my XP paritition. So i shrank my storage partition down by 20 Gb and behold, i can not extend ANY of my partitions/volumes. I have tried threw numerouse operating systems (both XP, Vista, and Ubuntu) but i have had no break throughs.

I have tried formating my XP partition (Right now i copied my hole XP file system to the storage and now that partition is blank) so now its a new partition and theres still no option to get it to join with the unalloated space. I have tried Vista's disk manager, EASEUS ParititionManager, and GNOM PartitionManager(XP's isnt worth noting because i didnt see the option to join/extend volumes) still nothing has worked. here is the listings of partitions/unalocated spaces i have:

Ext2 (ubuntu partition) 8Gb
NTFS (XP Pro 64 partition) 15Gb
NTFS (Vista 32 partition) 45Gb
NTFS (Storage partition) 212Gb
Unallocated space 20Gb

All on a 320Gb SATA hard drive

I will be leaving for college in under 7 days, and i would really like to have my systam fully functional by the time i leave. Best to have this done were i have all the resorses at hand, including an exter computer for good lucks sake. So quick responses would be very much apresiated.

Thank you greatly for your time,

John M.

Halford

01-03-2009, 11:42 PM

I always used the same program when it comes tio partition work and never had an issue joining spaces. It's a bit old, but efficient, partition magic 8

My 2c.

Hal.

olson

01-04-2009, 06:56 AM

I recently ran into some problems with my laptop when trying to dual boot Vista and Linux. There's a nice tool from Seagate if you have either Seagate or Maxtor drives (even a portable drive works) where I backed up the entire drive, wiped it clean, made new partitions and copied back the data from the old partitions. Everything worked great and I was able to resize partitions cleanly by doing so.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Other software would probably work, but free has a nice ring to it if you have a Seagate or Maxtor drive of any kind that you can put in the system. Cheers!