1 Topic by papoudu34 (edited by papoudu34 2012-09-05 11:47:31)

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Topic: how to pass free space from extended to primary? (solved)

Hello,
here is a french guy who need some help!
I am under Windows Seven and want to enlarge my primary partition C: .
Here is where i am for the time being; after some "apply" in the livecd Gparted, here is my disk:

<--Primary---> <---------------------------------- Extended---------------------------------------------->
....dev/sda1..........dev/sda7.........non...........dev/sda5............non........dev/sda6............non
....................................................alloc.....................................alloc.................................alloc
<-C: system-> <---empty------><-------><-----D:data--------><-------><---E:data------><------>

What I have done up to now is to take back free space from "dev/sda5" and create an empty part "dev/sda7".

How now to pass this "dev/sda7" from the extended to the primary (in order then to enlarge C:)?

Thank you for your help.
Have a nice day

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Re: how to pass free space from extended to primary? (solved)

OK,
I found the solution: it is the "extended" which has to be reduced!
So:
- I suppressed "dev/sda7"
- I reduced the "extended" (on the left) : this gives me a free space available in the primary, on the right side of "dev/sda1"
- then I was able to enlarged "dev/sda1"

Have a nice day

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Re: how to pass free space from extended to primary? (solved)

Thanks for posting how you were able to resolve the problem, and for editing the initial post to place "solved" in the title.  This will help others searching for answers to similar problems.