Until yesterday, I had two partitions on my hard drive with Windows 7 installed on one and Vista on the other partition. I got tired of using 2 different OS and so I formatted the Vista partition and made it an unallocated space. Now I want to extend the volume from Windows 7 to include the unallocated space, but unfortunately when I try to extend volume - the unallocated space, that option is grapyed out and I cannot do it. I realised that you can only extend the space or partition on the right side. I was wondering if there is any way around this, and what would be the best way for me to include the unallocated space because I dont want to use it as just an empty NTFS drive Thank you

Hello, Doing a system backup and then a system restore may take care of that. This allow to place it back on the first partition. The you can increase the partition or what ever you like to do with it. JB

do a system backup in Windows 7? and then system restore to a restore poiunt I dont really understand how that is going to work, are you sure about it?

No! Sorry, a clearer statement would be to restore it to the hard drive. The same as you would if there had been a hard drive failure. Using the backup to move everything to the first partition. There are two things to consider using the System Backup, it will be the same size as the partition and will create the same size partition when restored. Secondly you will have to have some where to store the backup. If you are not familiar with restoring from a backup you may want to discuss this with someone before trying this. I cannot think of any other way to move everything to the first partition except the backup and restore from backup method. JB

yeah i did backup on a blank DVD. anyways I solved the problem myself. I downloaded a program called GParted and booted from it, and after that I was able to extend the volume quite easily. The only problem was that it somehow messed up my boot files but I used my original Windows 7 installation disk and did a 'repair your computer' and it worked great, and now I have extended the cvolume to include the unallocated space. Thanks everyone or the help