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Question

Move partition C to expand volume

Mar 26, 2018 12:59AM PDT

I was going to delete partition D and then expand C to use the extra volume. When I right clicked on D, delete volume was not highlighted to I shrank the volume to 100,000 +. I then right clicked C but the expand volume is not highlighted. What can I do. I did not want to move the files to D.

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Re: expand volume
Mar 26, 2018 1:10AM PDT

You can only expand a volume into adjacant space. So you would have to move D to the end of the now unallocated space it consumed before. Use another partition manager if yours doesn't do that.

It's unclear why you couldn't delete it. Maybe another partition manager can? Try GPARTED from a Linux distro.

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I used GPARTED to do this.
Mar 26, 2018 8:45AM PDT

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