Extend volume
- Some time ago I installed win7 proffesional (msdn) on a small partition, since I installed it I dindt have enough time toinstal al programma's I wanted, but yesterday I did :)I saved al my files from vista on a external hdd and deleted vista,then I formatted the partition vista.But my problem is I cant ad those un used GB to my win7 partition :sI also made a screenshot[IMG]http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/7083/naamloospa.png[/IMG][/URL]I hope you can understand my English, and help me :)
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If I understand you correctly (Dutch or Flemish), you want to add unallocated space to drive C but you cannot.
I think it’s because the spare space and drive C are not contiguous. You could delete the 14.65GB and 770.37GB partitions, set them up as one partition and then install Windows 7 on the new partition. At a later date, remove the existing Windows 7 installation.
- Marked As Answer byArthur XieMSFT, ModeratorWednesday, November 04, 2009 6:49 AM
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If I understand you correctly (Dutch or Flemish), you want to add unallocated space to drive C but you cannot.
I think it’s because the spare space and drive C are not contiguous. You could delete the 14.65GB and 770.37GB partitions, set them up as one partition and then install Windows 7 on the new partition. At a later date, remove the existing Windows 7 installation.
- Marked As Answer byArthur XieMSFT, ModeratorWednesday, November 04, 2009 6:49 AM
- Thanx for your answer, but is there no way to do it without having to reïnstall it ?why it is not contiguous ?it cost me a couple hours to instal 7 and instal all programs I wanted, sothats the reason I hope there is a solution without reïnstall.
- You can image the drive using Windows Backup, then restore the image to a different, larger hard drive.
I have done that successfuly. - Oké, I made an image of only the C:\ partition,then i formatted the harddisk,then i put the image on my pc.everything worked.but when i looked at partition manager.Nothing changed :sstill cant add memory to c:\:(
- You should see an unallocated section in Disk Management for the hard drive. You then right click the C: section (or other letter if its not C:) that is shown before the unallocated section and then select "Extend Volume...".
The size doesn't change automaticaly when you restore an image, the original size is kept. You should see an unallocated section in Disk Management for the hard drive. You then right click the C: section (or other letter if its not C:) that is shown before the unallocated section and then select "Extend Volume...".
I think you don't understand my problem, like BurrWalnut the problem is the spare space and drive C are not contiguous.
The size doesn't change automaticaly when you restore an image, the original size is kept.And after re-image its the same :(When the spare space and drive C are not contiguous you can not add space to C:\\So I was hoping for a solution to make it contigious.- I did a test using a virtual machine somewhat similar to what your image showed and I restored to a larger drive and got extra space I could expand into.
Your image indicates a 1 TB drive, so using a larger disk may be difficult, for the time being. Another option besides a larger disk is to use RAID that will get you a bigger disk to restore onto.
See image at...
http://cid-4b6b9fffe2e23537.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Windows%207%20Forums/DriveAfterRestore.JPG
I should have done a before image of the drive I used before using the larger drive to restore onto, but it would look the same except for the last unallocated section and the drive size would show somewhere around 931 GB.
Using Hyper-V for the virtual machine in case any one is wondering.- Edited byProton2 Friday, November 06, 2009 10:29 AMimage went missing
- But I only got 1 hdd...I dont think someone can help me with my problem :(Maybe the only solution is to reïnstall
- Yes, it worked, but i used Norton ghost 14.So the problem is windows back-up because it doesn't make an image, but a clone.
- I did find a way to do it with windows, but it requires a second drive you can use to mirror the volume that you want to expand.
After creating the mirror on the second drive, using disk manager, you can use that instead of the original. The mirrored volume will be at or near the beginning of the drive leaving room to expand into the rest of the drive.
This might also involve converting your original disk to a dynamic disk which you might not want.
I tested this on 64 bit Windows Ultimate, in a virtual pc (Hyper-V).
As you have found a 3rd party tool to do the job, my method is redundant for you.
