Topic: trying to grow primary partition - unable to shrink extended parttion
I have a problem that I cannot find anywhere in the forum. I have found solutions that were close but they do not seem to work out. I am following the instructions that are stated in this url - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/gfs.htm
I get to the step before the last where the user actually shrinks the whole extended partition after shrinking the logical partition and taking some unused space and transforming it to unallocated space then moving it to the right. When I attempt to move the beginning of the extended partition to where I want it , to free the unallocated space out of the extended partition, I get an error that prevents me from going further. Because of this I am unable to grow the main primary NTFS boot partition. I am using Gparted version 0.7.0-4 on the live bootable CD.Here is the file gparted_details.htm says:
GParted 0.7.0
Libparted 2.3
Move /dev/sda2 to the right and shrink it from 27.48 GiB to 19.62 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sda2 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sda2
start: 20482875
end: 78123007
size: 57640133 (27.48 GiB)
shrink partition from 27.48 GiB to 19.62 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
old start: 20482875
old end: 78123007
old size: 57640133 (27.48 GiB)
libparted messages ( INFO )
Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Can't have the end before the start! (start sector=36968448 length=0)
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Here is a screenshot: