Paragon Partition 8.5

Hello,

Im trying to merge or redistribute and cant do either. Attached is a picture of what PPm sees.
When I try to do a merge it says it cant find any partitions to be merged.
If I then try to redistribute it tells me windows is in use.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

 

Hi Peter
Hope your day is going well
Im guessing by your question that I must do it from a recovery environment?

Thanks

 

That's very true. Not just PARAGON, but no partition program i'm aware can make partition adjustments while in Windows. Now in retrospect, Paragon "DOES" & "WILL" allow you to create a backup image while still in windows, as will DriveSnapshot, two i am very familiar with and enjoyed success with.

Use the Paragon CD Recovery Environment if you have that and then you can manipulate to your heart's content.

Linux happens to run just fine on my drives/mobo so it's of great help in performing actions to the disk/partition from it's interface.

Best Of Luck.

 

Thanks Guys & Gals
I knew I was being a bit dense..



Thanks for the help (I love BootBack)

 

I do not see any free space available for any of the partitions to expand into. I think you will have to either reduce the size of one of the partitions to create some unallocated free space or delete one partition and then expand into the empty space.

I would not rely on any program to "merge" partitions. I lost data (had a backup though) while doing this once with Partition Magic.

After that experience, I move or copy all the data on the partition to be removed or merged and then delete the empty partition. After that, I expand the remaining partition into the unallocated space.

 

when i used windows i always used Paragon HDD programs and they always worked fine, it just reboots then does whatever it's going to do. maybe you forgot to select a drive first click the bit where it says basic, maybe that will work, you probably tried that though already lol

 

Click the 0 partition & then try next. That might work.

 

I mean C

 

Hi

E is empty. I want C to absorb E.
What do I need to do?
Thanks

 

Delete E:\ then you should be able to expand C:\.

Chris

 

Boy am I having to jump thru hoops
Not sure how I got to here.
But the picture shows where I am now.
I now have most of the space moved to c drive.
But Im left with unallocated space totaling 2+gigs.

 

Hi silat

Not on my laptop with it on but as I recall isn't there an option on the left to allocate this space ? I did this recently with 8.5 I'm sure

 

Ok this is what I see:

 

Hi

Redistribute free space I think

 

Now it is letting me redistribute.. Thanks for all the help