Windows 7 Partition Issue

[Ekkoe]

Hi,

I had Spyware on my XP, so I made a partition of my spare 10gbs, installed Win7, removed XP and all was good.

But then, upgrades and such expanded my Win7 to >9gb, so I wanted to increase the partition size.

Couldn't.

I go to the regular partition screen, I have 9,7gb of unused space which I can use to expand my other drive, but not the 10gb one with Win7 on it.

I have no idea what kind of information you might require for this problem, so feel free to ask away (but let's not get too personal).

Cheers,

Peter

 

[Joe S]

I'm surprised it installed on a partition that small. My feeling is that you should allow at least 50 gig for Windows 7 partition and installed software so there is sufficient free disk space if needed and store data on a separate partition or HD.
Joe

 

[Saltgrass]

It is a little hard to follow what you are saying. You will not be able to expand a partition toward the beginning of the drive. So, if your XP partition was first, you cannot expand the Win 7 partition into that space.

If that is your situation, post back and a snipit of your Disk Management picture attached would help.

 

[Ekkoe]

If I understand you correctly, then I think that is the situation. I parted my XP / other files into a D drive, then installed Win7 on a C drive, which was new.

Is there a way around it? It seems so random, not being able to add to that disc because the other one was first. I have free space, after all...

EDIT: Forgot the image Sorry it's in dutch, hope it's understandable.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc74/Ekkoe/DiscConfig.png

 

[reghakr]

You need a bout 60GB for Windows 7.

Try downloading GParted to correct the partition's

 

[Saltgrass]

Moving the partition will be very hard and may take several hours of repair time, if it works at all.

I would suggest you do an in-place upgrade of Windows 7 and put the upgrade in your D: partition. You can change its size later after deleting the first Win 7 partition, or do it before you do the upgrade, just make sure the new partition is a primary partition. Make the partition large enough to contail your Windows 7 install and other .old files. Probably no smaller than 20 G and I woulld go for 60 G or so.