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Topic: Two drives, unallocated space doesn't work

I have a laptop running Server 2003.  There is a C drive with 10 gigs (90% full) and a D drive with 45 gigs (9 gigs full)

I removed 25 gigs off of the D drive.  The listing in my GParted GUI is as follows:

/dev/sda1 C:
/dev/sda2 D:
unallocated

I am unable to add the unallocated space to the C drive but i can add it to the D, is there a reason for this?  Is it possible for me to add space to the C drive?

2 Reply by stormhead (edited by stormhead 2008-08-13 18:31:29)

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Re: Two drives, unallocated space doesn't work

Hi!

If you want do add unassigned ("free") space to a partition, this free space must border the partition you want to increase directly - "just because" by definition, a partition is a contiguous chunk of disk space.
From your posting, I assume that the GParted view of your drive looks roughly like

+---------------+---------------+-------------+
|  partition 1  |  partition 2  | free space  |
|   drive c:    |   drive d:    | unassigned  |
+---------------+---------------+-------------+

If you want to add the unassigned space to drive C: (the first partition), you first have to move the second partition to the right end of the disk. After this, you should be able to extend drive C:!

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Re: Two drives, unallocated space doesn't work

thank you!

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Re: Two drives, unallocated space doesn't work

The unallocated space must be contiguous to the partition we want to grow.
Please, take backup of important files. The move operation can be quite long.
Go step by step, rebooting into win2003 2-3 times after each step.

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