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Windows 7 Option To "Extend Partition" Grayed Out In Disk Management (SOLVED)
I guess I'll start with what gave birth to this problem: I was curious about OpenSUSE so I thought I'd try it out, I dual booted Windows with OpenSUSE and everything was fine, I gave it a go, exactly what I wanted to do, and then I was done with it. In the process of installing OpenSUSE however...- Inception
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- boot issues command prompt data recovery disk management disk utility dual boot extended partition file system flash drive grub opensuse os installation partition repair resize partition storage issues system restore windows windows 7
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Windows XP XP SP3 extend partition inquiry
Hi, On XP Drive 0 I have C: with XP and have another couple of drives as well. and Drive 1 is F: Primary and G: Extended each about 37GB. I have Drive 2 D: 80GB Extended partition... I want to join both F and G together as 1 partition mainly the G: one. Though Disk Mgmt Storage...- ozstar
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- disk management drive configuration extended partition ntfs partition sp3 storage system setup windows xp
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Windows 7 Confusion About Logical Partition Properties and Usage in Windows 7
I created an extended logical partition on my HD using Paragon Partition Manager 10-64 bit (I'm running 64bit Win7 Home). In the creation process I left 121.x GB on the C: Primary partition (also left untouched the 2 unlabeled partitions for the system). And created an extended logical...- RWB
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- disk management drive properties extended partition free space logical drive ntfs paragon partition manager partition storage issues windows 7
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Windows 7 Warning - UEFI install and secondary hard drive with Extended/Logical partitions.
It has come to light, that a UEFI installed system, will fail to boot if a secondary drive is attached which contains logical partitions. This would have to be an MBR configured drive, of course, but if it has at least one primary and one extended partition, it will stop Windows 7 and Windows 8...- Saltgrass
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- boot issues data recovery extended partition installation logical partition mbr secondary drive uefi windows 7 windows 8
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Windows 7 Converting a dynamic disk to basic without data loss
Hello All, Would really appreciate some help. I initially had 1 500gb dynamic disk, with one partition containing all my documents and windows files. I created a partition in the free space to copy my documents into so I could overwrite Windows keeping my documents intact. However I...- Bollard
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Windows 7 Installed to extended partition.
So I recently installed win7 to my desktop which at the time had Ubuntu as the sole OS. I wanted all my stuff from Ubuntu after win7 install so I created an NTFS partition and moved all my crap there, wipe Ubuntu and did a clean install. So after I moved all my stuff from the NTFS patition to...- John Carty
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- boot issues clean install data recovery disk issues dual boot extended partition gparted installation live usb ntfs system repair ubuntu windows 7
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Windows 7 Why i cant extend C partition??
Hi I have a problema when making a bigger C partition (where i have win7). I get free space but i cant then use to expand C. I have win 7 , ultimate, 64 bits Im trying to do with paragon partition manager, from program and from cd boot maked from this program. This is my start...- Ogro
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- backup c partition disk management extended partition free space paragon partition manager partition shrink partition ultimate windows 7
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Windows 7 Help with Hard Drive partitions
I just replaced the hard drive in my laptop using the system image technique. I recently did this on my desktop and was able to extend my c drive with the left over partition. I have my extra space on drive E and want to extend it to C. Why can't I do this? How can I do this? Link Removed- brennan
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- c drive desktop e drive extended partition hard drive laptop partition storage system image
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Windows 7 How can I get my boot partition configured
I have a problem. On my hard disk I have 2 OS's intstalled, Vista and Win 7. The win 7 partition is a 50GB logical drive. Vista is a primary partition. I want to get rid of the vista partition and extend win 7 to that now available space. Problem is, only Vista is marked as 'System' and i'm...- TK182
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- boot drive disk management dual boot extended partition hard drive logical drive partition system partition windows 7 windows vista
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Windows 7 Partition / Hard Drive Deleting
Hi, I need some help with this.. 'situation' I'm in :D What I want to do: Completely erase EVERYTHING on Disk 0, the ~298GB drive (i.e. Format it). Windows won't let me :(. Now from what I know, it won't let me because Disk 0 is the Primary Partition, and Disk 1 is an Extended Partition...- Fecal Face
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- disk management eraser extended partition formatting hard drive partition primary partition system files windows 7 windows xp
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Windows 7 Windows 7 on Extended partition - D:
Hi My HDD has the following partitions (all NTFS): Primary (Active) 50G Extended 200 G 50G 100G 50 I would like to install Windows 7 on the first Extended partition and have the drive letter as D: Although I am able to install Windows 7 on the above mentioned partition the OS...- acc
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- active partition c drive d drive drive letter extended partition hdd partitioning installation ntfs windows 7
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Windows 7 Windows 7 doesn't boot after deleting XP partition
Hello, I run Windows 7 for at least 4 weeks and I never had problems with it, so I decided to remove the now unneeded XP Partition. My Problem is that after this Windows 7 refused to boot. I suppose that either the Windows Bootmanager was on the XP Partition I removed. My Partition Table...- Taron
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- boot issues boot manager data recovery disk management dual boot extended partition linux ntfs partition management primary partition repair install startup repair swap troubleshooting windows 7 xp partition
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support