Extend Disk

Hi Guys, Too easy to ask you instead of scratching my head! I did install Windows 7, In disk 0, where I have one E "healthy, active partition of 8.49 GB, one H "Healthy, System Primary partition" of 112.5 GB NFTS, and one 112.14 Unallocated partition. Aside of this I have a 500 GB secondary Disk1.
I am trying to Extend Disk E to give some extra room to Windows 7, but my "Extend Volume" is gray. What should I do? Start thinking? C'mon too painful!:-D
Thanks!

 

Egad, you gave windows 7 only 8.49 GB? Though, personally, I'm not a big fan of partitioning drives at all. Unless it was on a SAN, then I'd be using Luns instead.

Anyway, you could try a bootable drive partitioning program, like gparted:

http://majorgeeks.com/GParted_Live_d5757.html

I've used this a lot in a vmware environment, when I extended a lun.

Also, you could use diskpart from the command line, if you rather not use gparted.

Click start, then run, then type in diskpart.exe (press enter) yes to the uac pop up.

type in:

list vol

This will give you a list of your volumes

You will want to select the correct one.

now type in:

select vol # (# being the disk you want to extend.)

Next, we want to extend this.

So, type in:

extend filesystem