Extend Boot Partiton

magnetic_tiger · 11-04-2009, 05:07 AM

Hey,

I have got an 80gb hard drive that was once split into two 40gb partitons, 1 boot (primary partition) and 1 extended (logical drive). I decided to format, then delete the extended partiton and was hoping

that i could resize the primary partiton to accomodate the unallocated space. Unfortunetly, I am trying to extend it and keep getting a message in Disk Management saying "you can only extend the volume to the available space shown because your disk cannot be converted to dynamic or the volume being extended is a boot or system volume".
The 'available space' is no more then the current size of the partition (40gb).

Why are you not allowed to extend a boot partition and if possible is their a solution?

spongmonkey · 11-04-2009, 05:13 AM

Hi, sadly you cannot extend a boot volume. You could try downloading and using Ultimate Boot CD and some of the partitions tools on it to do this (Partition Manager), but I can't guarantee the PC will boot afterwards

11-04-2009, 05:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
magnetic_tiger Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 17 OS: Windows XP SP2	Extend Boot Partiton Hey, I have got an 80gb hard drive that was once split into two 40gb partitons, 1 boot (primary partition) and 1 extended (logical drive). I decided to format, then delete the extended partiton and was hoping that i could resize the primary partiton to accomodate the unallocated space. Unfortunetly, I am trying to extend it and keep getting a message in Disk Management saying "you can only extend the volume to the available space shown because your disk cannot be converted to dynamic or the volume being extended is a boot or system volume". The 'available space' is no more then the current size of the partition (40gb). Why are you not allowed to extend a boot partition and if possible is their a solution?

11-04-2009, 05:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
spongmonkey Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norfolk Posts: 80 OS: Windows 7	Re: Extend Boot Partiton Hi, sadly you cannot extend a boot volume. You could try downloading and using Ultimate Boot CD and some of the partitions tools on it to do this (Partition Manager), but I can't guarantee the PC will boot afterwards __________________ MCITP, MCTS, Windows Vista