[underscore]

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/b139/whyexactly/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!

[underscore]

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.

[InvisibleSoul]

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.

[underscore]

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?

[InvisibleSoul]

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.

[underscore]

perfect, thanks.

brb haha

[underscore]

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.