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gmfry
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 6:22 am |
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I haven't done this in so long that I've forgotten how to do it. I have an external hard drive on which are three partitions. I want to delete two of them and put that space into the remaining one.
In Windows 8.1 using Disk Management, I deleted the two unneeded partitions, and now I have one that reads "Free Space," and the other that reads "Unallocated Space." I don't remember the difference between those two terms, and I don't remember how to use Disk Management to move the space from the two former partitions into the active one. Gerry
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 6:44 am |
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gmfry
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:03 pm |
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It's not allowing me to do that, Steve. Here's my Disk Management view in Capture1.jpg. When I right-click on the Data partition and select "Extend volume," the Extend volume wizard appears and I click on "Next" to get what appears in Capture2.jpg. When I click on "Next" in that dialog, another dialog opens telling me that I have selected that disk and "To close this wizard, click Finish." When I do, I get the dialog shown in Capture3.jpg, which I don't completely understand, but I click "Yes." And that gives me the dialog shown in Capture4.jpg. So I now have another dialog that I don't understand. This is a hard drive sitting in a USB dock showing as a healthy logical drive with two former partitions to the left, one with free space and the other with unallocated space. Where do I go from here? Gerry
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:14 pm |
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong (likely) but isn't it a thing in Windows Disk Management that you can only expand a partition if the unallocated or free space is to the right of the partition in the Disk Management graphic?
I THINK that, with the way the disk is set, a third party partition manager would be needed in this case.
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gmfry
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 10:33 pm |
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Thanks, Jay. I downloaded the free version of EaseUS Partition Master from CNET and used it to easily expand the partition. Don't know about your theory regarding placement of the unallocated or free space, but it appears to be correct in this case. In any case, mission accomplished! Gerry
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 11:05 pm |
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Glad to hear it Gerry.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 8:18 am |
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Glad you got your partitions sorted Gerry.
Jay I was always under the opinion that you could only extend into free space that was on the right if you used Windows and you needed 3rd party tools to do anything more.
I know I'd have problems with this Notebook, it came with the C: drive and a D: data partition after C: but after upgrading to 8.1 I suddenly have another recovery partition stuck in between C and D, there are already more recovery blocks than you can shake a stick at stuck at the front and back of the drive.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 10:00 am |
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Yes. I did not realize that the free space preceded the partition. Windows Disk Management can't expand into that space. -steve
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 1:13 pm |
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Or, you could have created a partition in the unallocated space, merged it with the free space, moved your data into the newly created partition, deleted the old data partition, or formatted it, then extended your new data partition to take up the entire disc.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 7:19 pm |
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MacDuffie wrote: Or, you could have created a partition in the unallocated space, merged it with the free space, moved your data into the newly created partition, deleted the old data partition, or formatted it, then extended your new data partition to take up the entire disc. Or the free space could have been made unallocated and then a partition made to use all the unallocated... Oh, never mind. Just kidding around anyway. Realistically though there really are several ways that this could have been done. Shoot, since it is just a data partition the data could even have just been copied to an external and then the entire drive just formatted and the data copied back.
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gmfry
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 9:01 pm |
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My goodness -- it's interesting to learn of all the ways I could have done this. Is there any way of archiving this entire thread to file away for future reference? Gerry
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 9:15 pm |
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How do you mean archive? We do not 'prune' threads after any certain age. What is posted here is here for as long as we are able to host the site, post don't just go away with age.
Now if you mean something like a print out of the entire thread that option is available through the menu links at the top of the thread.
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