impossible to enlarge my bootpartition (Page 1 of 2)

i guess E: was a logical partition, which is encapslued in a extended partition ; swhen you shrink the logical partition, you get free space INTO the extended partition, but not out of it !!! So know you nedd to shrink the extended partition too.
To do this, click the endpoint of the extended partition and chose rezise move, and then shrink the extended partition from the left handle...
Hope you 'll understand ...

Where is unallocated space ? between c: and extended partition ?
Please past here the output of :
# fdisk -ul

thx

Don't forget please, I am a newbie in this stuff.
I can make a screenshot, I can execute the fdisk command. I see the results. But I don't know how to save this file on a disk?! This application is working in memory, isn't it? Or am I missing something here? ( only 'root' but that's however no disk, I think)

I'm afraid that I'l have to classify this one under "no solution".
I've tried to follow the saving lines but I have no floppy, there seems to be nothing saved on my disk after launching the several commands ( I probably do something wrong) and my USB stick triggers a lot of errors during the booting phase.
But however I think this is a 'structural' problem which has nothing to do with Gparted as such. I've tried this also via "Partition Magic" and I have the same problem: unallocated space of 10 G from the E-logical partition should be available and is visible. But it seems to be impossible to "import" this 'free' space (increase) into the C-drive (boot partition). And I have reduced also the size of the extended partition.

Very strange...?

Anyhow, thanks for the assistance.

I can't see how that I can do that without saving the TXT-file on something? The output of that command contains quite some text. It's hard to write this output down on a piece of paper and reboot the system and retype it again.
Do you understand what I am trying to say?

Or is there another way?

Indeed, I know. But as I described before: this is not working on my system.
So I will give it a try by typing the requested info manually hoping I am not making any mistakes.
I hope also this gives a hint to someone?

- In this example I have 1 G unallocated space wich I can't extend to the C:
It's only possible to reduce C:

Output of FDISK -ul:

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9G  81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63sec/track, 9964 cyl , tot 160086528 sec
units= sectors of 1 * 512 bytes= 512 bytes

Device       boot         start                    end               blocks                         id       system

/dev/hda1   *              63                  51199154        25599546                      7       HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2               51199155           158015339       53408092+                   f        w05  Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5               51199218           158015339       53408061                     7        HPFS/NTFS

I think I understand what you mean. But I don't know what is happening and this I don't understand:

- Indeed, I think I forgot to shrink my extended partition the previous time. But the only way to resize the extended partition is via the menu. (After that action I think the "+" sign in the fdisk -ul output drops 1 position down towards dev/hda5. Is that correct?)

- If I double click on the empty grayed space ( titled 'Unallocated space 9.77 GiB') nothing happens, only an information window appears "info about unallocated" !?
There is absolutely no handle visible if I try to take the left of that space...!

And here is the next one : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ti … nded_2.jpg

Of course ! Did you really hade a look to my screenshot ??? :-/
Didnt you see free space MUST be contiguous ??????

To solve your problem :
grow up your hda2 up to the end of your drive
move your hda5 from the beginning of the hda2 to the end of hda2
shrink your hda2
THEN you will get free space BETWEEN hda1 and hda2, and THEN i could grow up hda1 !

Is it okay ?

This is really driving me crazy!
On your described MOVE-step I can't move. I can't see any handle ( cross-handle), clicking, double-click, ... doesn't help.
There is no action possible. So step "move your hda5 from the beginning of the hda2 to the end of hda2" is impossible to achieve. ( see http://users.skynet.be/am028462/no_handle_to_move.jpg = the same situation as on page 5 of your manual  http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/gfs.htm
)

??

I've tried this many times. I can't see any cross.
100% sure !

Let's discuss this off-line. I'll send you an email.