Re: Extending a File System Partition for Windows XP
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:13:10 -0700
Grant wrote:
I am trying to extend the capacity of my File System Partition (C
Drive).
I have tried to use the [extend] function in DiskPart, but it keeps
saying: DiskPart failed to extend the volume.
Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.
It is a Basic disk (not dynamic) and I have read somewhere that you
can't extend the filesystem,
That's correct. Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of
changing the existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The
only way to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic
is the best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware
alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware,
but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you
want within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself (because I've never
needed to use *any* such program), but it comes highly recommended by
several other MVPs here.
Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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