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It’s great that Microsofts Windows Vista now natively supports resizing and repartitioning of drives right in the computer management console. The easiest way to get to this feature is by right-clicking on My Computer > Manage. Goto the Storage menu item. You can see below DISK 0, DISK 1 etc… Here’s where the frustrating part comes in. Let’s say you have partitions DISK 0 [C:\(50GB)Boot Drive] [UNDPARTIONED SPACE(50BG)] [D:\(40GB)]. You would think that you could right-click [C:\] and then click Extend Drive. However, the option is grayed out for Extend Drive. I saw a lot of bogus tutorials out there . Here’s the right way to do it. In order to Extend the [C:\] Boot Drive which resides in the Primary Partition you must first delete the Extended Partition assuming that’s where the “Unallocated Space” is you are trying to extend to. You can have many partitions inside of an Extended Partition as you’d like and also have unallocated space within that partition but, again if the unallocated space you are trying to extend to resides in the Extended Partition, until that Extended Partition is deleted having no formatting and drive letter assignments you will not be able to extend your [C:\]Boot, Primary Partition to that space. Most of the third party tools for WindowXP don’t work with Vista so, you’re kind of stuck with what they have. Please leave a comment if you find any other good partitioning programs with more features or have any issues with this tutorial.

Tags: drive partitioning, Vista