eMachines Windows Vista FAQ

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Disk Management - Extend Volume

You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by extending them into adjacent unallocated space on the same disk. To extend a basic volume, it must be raw or formatted with the NTFS file system. You can extend a logical drive within contiguous free space in the extended partition that contains it. If you extend a logical drive beyond the free space available in the extended partition, the extended partition grows to contain the logical drive.

For logical drives, boot, or system volumes, you can extend the volume only into contiguous space and only if the disk can be upgraded to a dynamic disk. For other volumes, you can extend the volume into noncontiguous space, but you will be prompted to convert the disk to dynamic.

1. Open Disk Management.

2. Right click the volume you wish to extend and select Extend Volume.
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3. In the Welcome to the Extend Volume Wizard dialog box, click Next.
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4. In the Select Disks dialog box, make the appropriate changes and then click Next.
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5. In the Completing the Extend Volume Wizard dialog box, click Finish.
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6. The changes are made.
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