C: partition full but unable to extend

[pc142]

I am working on a customer's Asus P501J. The C partition is nearly full, just 1 gig left out of 75. The disk looks like this left to right: fist block 14.65 GB healthy primary, next block is 74.52 GB OS C healthy primary partition, next block is 104.52 Data D healthy page file logical drive, last is New volume F 104.40 GB healthy logical drive. Though there is all this extra space I am unable to extend C because D being next to C prevents it. I've imaged and done backups, though a system file on D gets denied permission to backup. Would deleting D be the way to solve this? Thanks in advance.

 

[Martyn]

I've just done one very similar. Client had an 80GB hard drive with C: partition full, a data partition hardly used and 17.5GB not even partitioned from new!!! I used Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation and merged all three into one partition after talking to the client. It was a breeze.

 

[pc142]

I've tried with Paragon partition manager with no luck. Maybe Acronis can do this one. I'll wait to see is anyone has dealt with this particular Asus setup first.

 

[kwisher]

Almost any Linux Live disk has the gparted disk partioner on it. You can use this to resize, remove, and create partitions. There is also a gparted live disk available.

 

[sustainmypc]

Almost any Linux Live disk has the gparted disk partioner on it. You can use this to resize, remove, and create partitions. There is also a gparted live disk available.

I agree with kwisher, you have your best shot using gParted.

 

[pc142]

OK, I'll give it a shot. Thanks & I'll report back here later.

 

[Larry Sabo]

Have you first reduced the size of the D partition to create unallocated space between C and D, then tried to expand C to fill that space? You may have to slide the smaller D partition to the right after shrinking it, if the unallocated space is created after D.

 

[pc142]

When I shrink D the unallocated space ends up on the right side of D. So far the disk managing software I've used (7's built in manager and Paragon) hasn't allowed me to move D to the right.

 

[PCX]

+1 on Linux Live CD or Parted Magic CD.

One of the main programs used under Linux is Gparted.

 

[TimM]

I've done it quite often. I use Terabyte Unlimited's BootItBM. In your case it would be a four stage process.
1. Resize the D volume smaller. (probably about 1 minute).
2. Slide the D volume to the right. (The longest part... half an hour or maybe more).
3. Resize the the extended partition that contains D and E so that the free space is outside at the beginning. (Just a few seconds).
4. Resize C (under a minute).

(If I wasn't doing it onsite, and time wasn't a problem, I'd most likely shrink and slide E too... before step 1).

 

[pc142]

I had a Ubuntu disk with gparted and it worked just fine. It needed a start up repair but then all was well. Client gained another 100GB on C. Thanks for your responses.