"Luca" wrote:
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> 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.
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I must say your explanation has thrown me a curve ball-but I will simply
state that in order to extend a partition, you must do it next to adjacent,
UNALLOCATED, space. Also, I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, but it
seems like you are trying to join hard drives, not partitions. I believe you
can only extend partitions on a singular drive. If this hasn't helped, check
out this article:

[url]http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/19a9ac4d-d151-4fde-b187-9f8dfa09cb351033.mspx?mfr=true[/url]

Best,
_Mike