partition help
 

ok so the free space was gained from shrinking the now 19.95GB partition which houses Linux. when I right click and try to extend my C drive the "Extend" option is greyed out, so I try to delete the "free space" and I get

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Untitled-1.jpg

I tried simply making the free space a new partition, which confused GRUB and I don't want to do that anyways.

So how can I get my free space back! help!

C: has now been bumped up to 32% free space by moving files to my external drive, so I'm guessing this isn't what causing the problem.

You can't "delete" the free space... it's already raw space that's unallocated to any partitions.

So you want to add the free space to C drive?

If so, going to need some 3rd party software for that like Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director. You can find both on Hiren's Boot CD.

then why the crap am I allowed to try to delete it, but not extend C:? I thought Disk Management could extend but only to the right.

I have GParted on a disk, I used it to shrink Ubuntu and get that free space, would that be safe to use to expand Vista?

GParted SHOULD work.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php

It shows it can grow NTFS partitions.

perfect, thanks.

brb haha

ah problem solved! the free space was still inside /dev/sda2 with linux, while windows was in /dev/sda1. so once I shrunk /dev/sda2 and got the free space outside of it I could extend my C: in windows no problem.