Hi. I use to manage my partitions with Symantec Partition Manager. It is uncompatible with W7 and it disappears from Symantec-Norton site.Anyway. I have some changes I want to do to my partitions.Is there a way to do this in Windows 7. If not, some FREE software?Thanks.

Take a look at this web site. It has lots of Free Partition Managers, Editors and Recovery (Partitioning Software) I've used GParted LiveCD and Partition Logic successfully.Rich

To manage partitions within Windows 7 use Disk Management. Click the Windows Orb (Start), type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter, then right-click the graphic of the drive to be changed. The main commands are Shrink, Extend and Format. SHRINK RULESDisk Management is only able to Shrink a partition to leave contiguous unallocated space to its right (in the DM graphic display), otherwise the option is greyed out. Also, it can only decrease the partition size down to the first unmovable/locked system file. To get round this, temporarily turn off System Restore, do the shrink and turn System Restore back on. Running a defragmentation may also move some of the ‘unmovable’ files. EXTEND RULESDisk Management is only able to Extend a partition using contiguous, unallocated space to its right, otherwise the option is greyed out.

Thanks Ztruker for the site, but the GPartedLiveCD is a Linux software ???Thanks BurrWalnut. I acces this app via right-click on Computer -> Administration -> Disks administration (I'm traslating, my W7 is in spanish). I tried this, but I'm not sure if this can help me.I have the disk partitionated so I'm afraid to lost data if I do this. What I want to do is assign all of the space on a partition to another and eliminate this empty partition.Example:Disc 0: partition 1 / partition 2 / partition 3I want to assign all of the space on parttion 2 to partition 1 and eliminate the partition 2. I can't found the option to do this.

I’m assuming that your partitions 1,2 and 3 are primary and are shown left to right as 1, 2 and 3 in the Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) graphic. Also, partition 2 doesn’t have a Status of System (at the top of the window), i.e. it doesn’t contain the boot files. 1. First of all move any data on partition 2 that you want to keep, to partition 1 or 3. 2. In Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc), right-click partition 2 and choose Delete Volume. This will give you contiguous, unallocated space on the right of partition 1, which can be added to partition 1 by right-clicking partition 1 and choosing Extend.

Here are some articles with the detailed steps. Create and format a hard disk partition Delete a hard disk partition Hope this helps.

That's what I done. I made a mistake in my post. That's my discs configuration:Disk 0= Partition I: (empty) / Partition C: (Windows 7) / Partition E: (Games & some backups)Disk 1= Partition D: (additiona apps space) / Partition F: (Data) / Partition G: (Downloads, mails and so)I want to merge the I: partition into C: to increase the C: space and delete the I: partition. Well, I can't do this. I delete the I: disk and now what I have is a hole there, it is, a non partitionated space, but I can't do anythig with it but recreate a partition.@Linda: Thanks, but this info is toooooo basic.

I’m concerned that Disk 0, Partition 1 (labelled as Drive I) was empty, was this a small recovery partition created by the manufacturer? The reason I ask is that Disk 0, Partition 1 usually contains one or both of the Boot files and Windows 7. Using Disk Management you will not be able to add any space in the leftmost position (Partition 1) to the next adjacent partition (Partition 2, your drive C) unless you reinstall Windows and combine them at the start of the reinstall. Have a look at the top of the Disk Management display and post back here the Status of Drives I, C and E. I suspect that C will have five attributes: System, Active, Boot, Page File and Crash Dump, although the Page File could have been disabled or moved to a different drive.

The facts: I had this PC from years. My Disc 0 is new enough, the Disc 1 have a few years. This PC was assembling by me and upgrading (now it needs a new upgrade but I have no money :D)This PC worked with XP from his very beginning (I have a "museum", I used even the first Windows for PC XT) but it had every Windows 7 beta version and I participated on this forum I believe contribuiting to make W7 better (even when MS ignored several of our suggestions)Anyway. When I acquired the final W7 Ultimate version (I believe we deserved some discount, but...) I mean the very expensive W7 Ultimate, I made a fresh install, I formatted, and so. The installation creates the annoying first partition as a Reserved for the system partition.A few later I had a problem: I installed XP on a partition (actually Partition D on Disc 1) and my bootloader was broken. I tried everything but finally I decided to reinstall everything (and not XP wich I use as a virtual OS with VMLite because my processor is 32 bits).The new reinstallation doesn't use the Reserved for the system partition so I have almos 100 Mb almost useless. Well, I'm tired of writing :DPS: I always set my Virtual memory to a certain value relative to my actual RAM and disk space. I setted it to 3096 and it is on C: parttion. Disk Management say: C: --> System, Active, Boot, Page file, Crash dump (in spansh Volcado, I assume it's the same), Primary partition.

Actually, Mb represents megabits. You probably mean MB (megabytes) and 100MB is an insignificant amount of disk space to concern yourself with. I suggest you ignore it and stop causing yourself unnecessary stress over it. Ordinarily, in a single operating system configuration of Windows 7, 100MB is reserved, but it can be avoided, read this http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/08/20/hack-to-remove-100-mb-system-reserved-partition-when-installing-windows-7/ and this http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/09/how-to-avoid-200mb-hidden-system-partition-from-been-created-during-windows-7-installation/

Well, I'm old-fashinoed :DAnyway, I know 100 MB are a few, but I don't want this partition, and, more important, I wnt to know how to deal with this things.

Windows 7 reserved partition is used to save boot files, so Windows 7 reserved partition(100MB) is very important for booting Windows 7. Don't do anything to this 100MB partition, otherwise you will encounter bootable problem. About resize/move/merge/split/partition, I recommend a thirty partition manager for Windows 7, you only need to drag the partition handle on disk map to perform the resize operation. Its home edition is free for Windows home users. www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

For some reason, not always W7 creates and uses the 100 Mb partition.Thanks