I can't delete partition in Disk Management.. Help!

[valentino70]

Hello,

I have an annoying problem that hope someone would be able to help me with. I have Vista Home Premium SP2 and created a dual boot for Ubuntu 9.10. After a while of using it, I've decided to delete Ubuntu and fix MBR which was successful. The problem I'm having is that the 19 GB of partition does not want to delete. When I try deleting it using Disk management I get the following error "There is not enough space available on the disk to complete this operation"
I've tried extending volume of main partition, tried new simple volume on free space partition and still get same error. I even tried diskpart.exe with command line and can't do it.
Has anyone ran into same issue or know how to resolve this?
Please Help!

PS: I've attached a screen shot of my partitions for your reference.

 

[StringTech]

EASEUS Partition Manager

I've tried extending volume of main partition, tried new simple volume on free space partition and still get same error. I even tried diskpart.exe with command line and can't do it.

So you've formatted then extended and it didn't work?

Maybe EASEUS Partition Manager can help.

 

[dbdawn]

Use a parted magic live cd to delete the partition and then extend one of the other partitions.

 

[PcTek9]

gparted is free

it's a graphical partitioning program for adding/removing/extending partitions.

It should be listed on this forum, or you can find it on google. burn a cd of that and use it.

 

[valentino70]

I will try parted and/or gparted partition. What do you guys think about Hiren's BootCD Partition tools like: Acronis Disk Director, Partition Commander 9.01 or Supder Fdisk 1.0? The reason I ask, is because I've had a bad experience using Partition Magic for XP (Tool from Hiren's CD) when creating a partition it corrupted my data and had to re-format HD and re-install XP
Thanks for replying!

 

[dbdawn]

Hiren's CD is warez, lots of commercial software on that cd. I have never had a problem with gparted or parted magic, they are really not that big of a download so give it a shot.
If you are worried just make sure all your data is backed up first, it should be shouldn't it?

 

[valentino70]

Yes, data should be backed up but hadn't done it for a month due to not having external HD or DVDs but that's another story. Just to update you I couldn't try some of other partition software because my Ops system is Vista 64-bits. I researched and found Partition Home Edition Wizard 5.0 which its free version supports 32 and 64 bits. I ran it and required to restart twice but so far everything is good It's out there for all of you 64 Bits operating system user and best thing is that is user friendly, free and it works!! (see my attachment)

Thanks for your help guys