I want to unallocate a partition so that I can merge it with another partition using GParted. How can I achieve this?
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Previously, I have installed Windows 7 on my 320 GB laptop with three partitions 173, 84 and 63 GB each. The 63 GB partition was where the Windows was installed. The rest were for file containers.  Now I changed my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I installed Ubuntu by replacing the entire Windows 7 on the 63 GB partition. The rest of the partitions remain as an NTFS Windows partition and I can still access them both (the 173 and 84 GB partitions).  Now I want to change the two partitions of Windows into an Ubuntu format partitions plus most importantly, I want to extend the 63 GB partition to more than a 100 GB because at the moment I am running out of disk space. Whenever I try to install any application, especially using wine, it always complains for a shortage of disk space.  How do I do the extending activity before I entirely format my laptop again and lose all the important files on my partitions?
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Can anyone recommend a cheap/free utility that can do this without very much effort?  My preference is that it would be really easy.    Boot into Windows Pick drive to move Pick target drive It copies everything over, and reboots to the correct partition.
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I had Ubuntu (150 gb) and zorin os (150 gb). In a hard drive of 320 gb, then using the Disks utilty of Zorin OS 9 which I'm running, tried to delete the Ubuntu one, because I will stay only with Zorin.  Then I noticed that is not so simple. And now that "free space 152 gb" shows as unallocated. My attempts for doing something about that from Zorin failed, I guess because can't do much with the HDD as I'm using an OS running on it right? So even gparted couldn't help.  How do I make a gparted USB bootable? Is that the way to go to boot and resize partition to use that unallocated space?  Can someone point me in the right direction, in a step by step guide?   I'm 100% stuck. Made the USB bootable with unetbootin, downloaded the gparted iso, but when I reboot and enter the BIOS, when pick the usb I get "The system found unauthorized changes on firmware, operating system or uefi drivers", and that's all, no joy,  no gparted resizing my partions or merging the unallocated space...  Tried booting with linux mint from bootable usb, and running gparted, but in that case I can't to anything with unallocated space either. I can only resize    The dev/sda1 can be shrinked only... I'd like to have a 294 gb hd instead... the unallocated simply doesn't show any options or commands (all grayed out)  If I enter any number on dev/sda1 in "free space preceding" (or following), that is substracted from "new size"....  After doing a `mount´ in terminal I see this:  /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=fernando) /dev/sdb1 on /media/fernando/MULTIBOOT type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)   I guess what I need is to delete the sda2 partition, how do I do that?
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I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop, but would like to install windows for the purpose of gaming (Hallelujah). But I haven't left any unpartitioned parts of the HDD so now I am stuck on (How to remove one partition from ubuntu and use it to install win7 in a safe way?) I do not want to reinstall everything all over again, but definitely want to play games on my laptop.  I do not want alternatives with Wine or PlayOnLinux, cuz I have runned a few games and they were all buggy, I want dual-boot.  fdisk -l output:  **Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe2cf4679     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048     2000895      999424   83  Linux /dev/sda2         2002942  1465147391   731572225    5  Extended Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda5         2002944     4001791      999424   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6         4003840     6002687      999424   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7         6004736   406003711   199999488   83  Linux /dev/sda8       406005760   606003199    99998720   83  Linux /dev/sda9       606005248   706002943    49998848   83  Linux /dev/sda10      706004992   879212543    86603776   83  Linux /dev/sda11      879214592  1035462655    78124032   83  Linux /dev/sda12     1035464704  1075462143    19998720   83  Linux /dev/sda13     1075464192  1115461631    19998720   83  Linux /dev/sda14     1115463680  1269835775    77186048   83  Linux /dev/sda15     1269837824  1465147391    97654784   83  Linux**
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On my Windows 10 drive I have the following partitions    How can I extend the C partition so that it uses the (Extended) "Free space" partition?  The extend option is greyed out when right clicking the C partition    Deleting the free partition gives the following error     There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation
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Is there any way to shrink an exFAT partition?   The windows disk manager has the "Shrink" option greyed out.
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As you can guess, I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu and Kali.  But the thing is that i don't have a spare ubuntu iso(which would allow me to live boot ubuntu and then create a partition using g parted or any other app since my hd remains unmounted). So, it would be very awesome if anyone could provide me a way to create a new partition without unmounting it.. TIA
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I am trying to extend the C: with the unallocated space on the on the left.  I tried using a tool like EaseUS disk tool but it wasn't able to move C: to the left of the unallocated space.  Does anyone know how to get around this?
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I am currently dualbooted between Windows 8 and Linux Mint 18  Using GParted, I see this following:   The selection partition is unallocated for a size of 25 GB, I would like to merge this with my dev/sda6 (linux partition), so that I can make my linux partition about 50GB. I'm not really sure about the process though on how to do this? I try to resize dev/sda6, but I see that the maximum size and minimum size are the same. How do I merge the unaccolated space?
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I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I need to shrink my root Ubuntu volume in order to get some free space to create a new partition. Are there any Windows based tools that will do this for me? I tried booting up in gparted to do this but I cannot tell which partition is which since I cannot find the size (it displays everything in blocks).
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My dual-boot machine has partitions as follows:   sda1 50 GB NTFS sda2 15 GB unallocated sda3 20 GB ext3 sda4 20 GB ext4   I would like to allocate the unused space on sda2 to my Ubuntu partition on sda4, hopefully leaving the other two partitions untouched, leaving this configuration:    sda1 50 GB NTFS sda3 20 GB ext3 sda4 35 GB ext4   Is this possible? If so, how can it be done, preferably using GParted?
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I want to partition my hard disk, but I don't have any other software running(like dual booted).  And I do not know how to do it. Can you send the instructions?
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Story:  Yesterday I wanted to make my Ubuntu partition bigger so I ran Windows (Dual boot) and decreased size of my D drive size. It wanted me to reboot computer, when it was starting up it done everything and rebooted once again. Then I saw grub rescue with "no filesystem" or something like that. I ran Ubuntu live CD to fix that and it is now working.  Problem:  Problem is when I want to add unallocated part of HDD to my Ubuntu partition I can't, because GParted thinks whole disk is unallocated! I tried fixing filesystem by: fsck /dev/sda5 -f -r, but I think that's not it (or I'm doing it wrong way). I have also tried chkdsk from Windows Installation CD, but it didn't fix anything. Also, both of systems are working.  Is it just GParted problem, or maybe HDD is bad for real? If so, how to fix it?  fdisk -l can see partitions:  root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# fdisk -l  Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa118d672     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2          206848   286719999   143256576    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3       286720000   811972349   262626175    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4       915726335   976771071    30522368+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5       915726336   968652799    26463232   83  Linux /dev/sda6       968652800   976771071     4059136   82  Linux swap / Solaris   Images:
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I'm using GParted to shrink the partition on my 500 GB external hard drive to a 220 GB partition. It contains about 210 GB of data.   I'm shrinking it to convert FAT32 to EXT2. It has been almost an hour. My hard disk heats up so I have continuous ventilation to keep it cool.   Is this lengthy time taken by GParted normal? If not, then how do I safely disconnect it? I don't mind losing the data, but the hard disk is really important. Any suggestions? Also, will running the hard disk for such long hours be harmful?
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I met the same problem of not being able to shrink the Windows OS partition C: as much as I plan to due to unmovable files.  Having learned from , I would like to "turn System Restore off and remove System Volume Information folders". So I was wondering where and how I can "turn System Restore off and remov System Volume Information folders"?  This is the only way I can find out to solve my problem. If you have other way please let me know.
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I have an NTFS partition. The idea is I can use this for data on either Ubuntu Mate or Windows 10 dual boot. It worked fine when I first installed Mate, but recently I no longer have the delete option when I right-click on a file or folder. The delete key does nothing. I also can't paste into the partition (Paste greyed out). It's as if the whole partition is read-only. In Gparted, the partition is marked with a key. Does this mean anything? I'm not aware of having changed anything, however, Windows recently did a big update - have they hijacked my drive?  I've read related posts, but people speak of returned errors - I have no errors, just nothing happens. Also, suggested solutions seem far too technical for what must surely be a simple tick-a-box fix!  Please note - for me the Terminal is where I get off a train and Sudo sounds like a Japanese noodle dish. ;) GUI's preferred if possible! Thanks for your patient help!
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I am trying to grow my C: drive to use the unallocated space on Disk 0. Is it safe to throw away the Recovery Partition (i.e. make it unallocated)? And if so, is GParted an ok tool to do that with? Or do I need to move that, and if so, is the way to do that to reduce the size of the unallocated partition so there is empty space at the end, then move it there?