Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Add Unallocated Space to an existing partition (Windows 7 32-bit)

I came across a situation like this while i'm working in my office. My office-pc's(OS: Windows 7 32-bit) hard disk had an unallocated space around 30GB. I didn't want to make use of this space to create another separate partition (already having 3 separate partitions), what I wanted is to extend an existing partition with it. What I did was mentioned in step-by-step below.

Open the command-prompt and type diskpart.exe.
This directs you to diskpart shell window DISKPART>

Then select the volume which you want to extend, in my case it was E drive, so I type 7 enter,
DISKPART>  select volume E

It will show,
"Volume 4 is the selected volume" (in my case, it is the E drive)

Then type and enter,
DISKPART> extend noerr
If all goes well, you will be seen "diskpart successfully extended the volume".

sourcehttp://www.ehow.com/how_6797254_add-unallocated-space-partition-xp.html