Hi!

First of all, sorry for my english! Then ...

SO: Vista Home Premium

3 disk

disk 0 : sata, ~400 gb
disk 1 : pata, ~300 gb ( ide 0/0 )
disk 2 : pata, ~120 gb ( ide 0/1 )

partitions (all NTFS, created by vista)

disk 0 : volume 0, 48 gb, letter C, boot, system, pagefile, hybernate,
etc.etc.
volume 1, 325gb, letter D

both C and D have datas. I can't make a backup of them.

disk 1: unpartitioned, cointains nothing
disk 2: unpartitioned, cointains nothing

I plan to use disk 2 to backup what I consider my most important files.

Now, the question is :

why I'm not able to extend D (disk 0, volume 1) to merge it with the whole
disk 1 ?

(the option "exted" is grayed out in disk manager).

I would like to have something like this:

disk 0 disk 1
disk 2
|---------------------------|------------------------------|-----------------|
|-------------|--------------------------------------------|-----------------|
C (48gb) D ( 325gb + 300gb)
E (120 gb)



Thank in advance,
Luca.