Extending a primary partition !

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
What you do is get a Gparted Live disk or use an Ubuntu Live CD if you have it. Run Gparted. Resize the extended parition (shrink) from the left to leave unallocated space ( free space in extended != Unallocated free space). And then extend your /dev/sda1 [NOPARSE](C:)[/NOPARSE] to take up that free space.

If you wish to be extra safe, do the steps above except the last one of extending the partition in Gparted, and reboot. Boot back to Windows and then extend the partition. You'll see the unallocated space as "Black" now and will be able to extend the partition with ease.

Backup any data before performing the steps. Just in case.
 
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