I went through installing Vista after having XP installed on my computer.

XP was originally on the C drive (disk 0)

I installed another HDD, and partitioned it into 1 - 50 GB partition, and 3 - 216 GB partitions. I installed Vista on the 50 GB partition thinking it would be big enough, wrong.

Now I want to shrink one of the other partitions and extend the Vista partition, I can shrink any of the other partions E, F, or G, but it won't let me extend the Vista partition with the freed up space.

I noticed that the boot folder is on the XP HDD making it the system HDD is this the problem???

If you post a screenshot of your disk management that would give a better idea of your drive/partition setup Daniel. I don't think the system partition should limit the ability to extend.

here it is


I found out that the XP Pro that I bought on Ebay apparently was a bogus copy at least according to MS and it went banana's so i can't even get into it anymore.

It looks like you may have a mix of IDE and SATA drives which can explain Disk 1 being tagged the system drive, but that shouldn't cause the problem. You may be albe to fix that by making your Vista HDD the first boot HDD and then running a startup repair after backing up your BCD.

I think if delete partition E (the one immediately to the right of your Vista partition) you will find that you can then extend into the unallocated free space.

Grav!ty wrote:

It looks like you may have a mix of IDE and SATA drives which can explain Disk 1 being tagged the system drive, but that shouldn't cause the problem. You may be albe to fix that by making your Vista HDD the first boot HDD and then running a startup repair after backing up your BCD. I think if delete partition E (the one immediately to the right of your Vista partition) you will find that you can then extend into the unallocated free space.

Ok I didn't realize you had to delete the partition in order to extend another, dummy me was just trying to shrink the one and then use that freed up space, well that solved that problem.

As for a mixture of IDE and SATA drives, I forgot that one of the drives is an IDE. I just put it in there the other day from another system it just has some ISO files on it. All my other drives, including my DVD burners are SATA.