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Extending C Drive Into Free Space Never going to Linux again.

#1 lazyguy

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Posted 02 May 2008 - 10:27 PM

After trying Linux and not liking it, I uninstalled it. I have 100 GB of free space that is no longer part of the Windows partition, instead it is coloured light green and labelled free space. I cannot extend the Windows partition into it. What do I do?
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That's what I see on the Vista partition editor.

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#2 Platypus

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Posted 03 May 2008 - 03:59 AM

What prevents you extending the C: partition, lazyguy? If you right-click C:, is the Extend option not active? (The dialog shown appears to be for the free space?)

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I pressed F5, and I'm feeling refreshed...

#3 Baric

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Posted 03 May 2008 - 04:08 AM

n/m, not sure I'm right and it might be destructive ;-)

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#4 lazyguy

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Posted 03 May 2008 - 10:45 AM

@ Platypus: Yes, it was greyed out.

Thanks for the help, but after a few hours of booting, Skyping friends on the desktop, and rebooting, I've managed to get Vista up and running again.

After turning it off for the night I discovered that there was a problem with the GRUB, and I couldn't boot in Vista at all.

So I Skyped my Linu guru friend (the one that got me into this mess, no less) and we managed to sort everything out by using GParted and ms-sys via the LiveCD.

Thank you both for your help!