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[Brian_K]

zgembo,

Your images haven't been approved for viewing yet (although you can see them). Can you recall the sizes of your D: and E: partitions? How much data is in each partition?

What did you do in Partition Magic? A Resize or a Merge action?

Edit.... Just saw your last post. Don't do anything yet.

[zgembo]

ok

I try to resize partition D to C (to expand C from 49 to 63 because D is 14), E is 450 and want to stay as before...

but get this problem...

[DaveH]

In post #27, the sceen shot shows

C Drive---------14GB unallocated----------411 GB PqRP Partition

Your saying that you used to have 3 partitions and the 14GB space was the D drive before?

I assumed partition magic created that free space and you only had 2 partitions before.

Dave

[Brian_K]

Yes, change 3C to 07 as described.

Please let us know the outcome.

[zgembo]

yeaaaa

yes successful I back my drive letter E:

thx...

now I have question:

I tried to do this and have problem that we have solved...

how to expand C with this empty space (14gb)???

[Brian_K]

You have to resize the extended partition so the unallocated space is in front of the extended partition. Then resize the C: drive.

[DaveH]

But please don't do it from within windows.  Never work on the operating system partition from windows.

I also wouldn't use partition magic again, it s no longer supported and whatever caused the problem the first time may happen again.  Partition Magic does not support vista and windows 7 offet partitions, dynamic disks, GPT partitions, or drives larger than 1.5TB in size.

There are plenty of free partition tools availible.  If your familiar with Partition Magic you may want to look at Partition Wizzard.

It has a free version availible as well as a free bootable CD.  Use the bootable CD to work on your OS partition outside of windows.

As always, you should also do a full image or backup of your data before making any changes to your operating system partition and it really helps to do a thorough defrag and chkdsk first.

Dave

[zgembo]

OK I will not do it now, when I want to format my C drive then I'll do it

I have one more question what is this blue extended???

on picture:

1. is my C: ---------- OK
2. extended????
3. unllocated ( before my D 14gb)---------- OK
4. my E: ---------- OK

[Brian_K]

That 14 GB is unallocated space. Unpartitioned free space. It needs to be adjacent to the OS partition. Use Dave's suggested app to do this and then resize the OS partition.

[zgembo]

hello

I have one problem more...

on partition that I recover, there was one excel file protected with password... now I can't access to that excel...

when I start that excel document I get this (I opened this excel now without pass but this result)

I tryed to recovery but some programs tells me that that file is no more excel document