Comments on: Using DiskPart.exe As Disk Management Alternative in Windows Vista, 2000, 2003 and XP

By: aybek

aybek — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:35:34 +0000

disk C : doesnt allow shrinking more than 400mb why ? although there are 120Gb free space

By: tony

tony — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:19:00 +0000

For all that the only thing that want is to DELETE the unallocated space and merge it to the active partition so they get the storage of the unallocated particion back: With Computer management, just extend your original partition! I can’t believe i spend an hour on this. is very easy. hope it could help. Thanks.

By: jenan

jenan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:24:19 +0000

thank you for this topic

By: George

George — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:30:16 +0000

Exactly the tool I needed! I wanted to create an Extended partition with twelve Logical partitions – and no Primary partitions. Vista’s Disk Manager would automatically make the first three partitions Primaries and then put the rest as Logicals in an Extended partition. DiskPart gave me a finer-grained control over the creation and management of partitions.

…of course, any third party tool would have done the same for me, I just didn’t want to shell out $50 today. I will eventually because I’m going to want to move and resize on the fly, not just shrink and grow. (Sad how MS always half-asses the job when they copy a successful program, isn’t it?)

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:58:36 +0000

Shrink is not available as an option on any OS lower than Vista. Not on Diskpart or Diskmgmt. Vista’s disk utilities does the job, which is why Norton stopped Vista PartitionMagic support.

By: Just Use The GUI

Just Use The GUI — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:36:08 +0000

Right click >> My Computer >> Manage >> Disk Management. Then from there you can right click on different volumes and hit shrink and then type in how much to shrink by then right click new volume and use the unallocated space. Pretty easier than command line.

By: manas

manas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:15:44 +0000

there isn’t shrink on my diskpart.
win xp/win 2003
if i have 2 partitions.
C:6503M
D:62G
I want to extent c: 10 G.
how?

By: manas

manas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:09:43 +0000

there isn’t shrink on my diskpart.
win xp/win 2003

By: RAMESH

RAMESH — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:27:13 +0000

I HAVE 150 GB HARD DICK IN INSPIRON 1525 WITH TWO PARTIONS ONLY. RECOVERY DICK IS D AND OD DRIVE IS C. I WANT TO MAKE MORE PARTITIONS , IT IS POSSIBLE.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:42:52 +0000

To extend a volume, the unallocated space must be contiguous to the partition you are extending.

Your config

C: 40gb
D: 162gb
E: 11gb (recovery)
Unallocated is 20gb

If the 20gb is physically between D: and E: on the drive, you could only extend D: or E:, but not C:.

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By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:59:15 +0000

I have 20gb unallocated. I get error message there isnt enought free space on specified disk(s) to extend the volume.

I have partitions as this:
C: 40gb
D: 162gb
E: 11gb (recovery)
Unallocated is 20gb

Using DiskPat I select only disk in system (laptop) disk 0. I select partition (partion 2 is the C: drive partition).
Type in extend and get the error message.

What am I missing?

By: J.A. Siebrecht

J.A. Siebrecht — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:16:55 +0000

Dit is de grootste onzin die ik ooit gelezen heb!!!

By: Big Al

Big Al — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:47:11 +0000

You can’t shrink a partition with this tool under Windows 2000, this seems to be a Vista-only feature.

By: saleem

saleem — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:27:38 +0000

Hi,

I have 180GB with windows vista installed, if I try to create or shrink partition for linux like:

keep 80 GB for Windows & rest for Linux.

I use the “create partition” but when i give the size=100000 or 80000 this says size is too large !

Anyhelp please

regards,
—saleem