Windows 7 Unable to Expand Windows 7 Partition After Upgrade: Need Assistance

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Joe S

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• Dec 4, 2009

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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.
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Saltgrass

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• Dec 4, 2009

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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.

 

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• Dec 5, 2009

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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

 

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reghakr

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You need a bout 60GB for Windows 7.

Try downloading GParted to correct the partition's

 

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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.

 

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