How to boot windows from extended partition

Hi Dave, Thanks for answering my questions. This is my disk, any suggestions? Hi Jose You have The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP Potentially Unwanted Products. Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it. In order to increase size, youd have to remove the partition to the right of the boot.

Right click the partition there, and click remove. What is happening that there is a need to expand the boot partition? This site in other languages x. This question bothers me for a long time. So please help me figure it out. Here is the case: I have 80 GB in system boot partition C which becomes red in Explorer a few weeks ago. I guess I could extend the C drive with that unallocated space. How come? I was told to delete partitions in the middle of the disk to complete extending.

The above situation may not unfamiliar to most Windows users. There are many cases that need to extend system partition. What are the exact factors that affect our operations? As a matter of fact, reasons could be very simple. The unallocated space is not adjacent to the boot partition you want to extend. This is the same reason for the trouble in the example. You can only extend the boot partition into contiguous unallocated disk space. If there is unallocated space behind the Windows OS partition, you can move the space to the OS partition with the Extend Volume option or the Diskpart.

Step 1: Type Diskpart in the search bar beside the Start menu button. Then right-click the Diskpart icon and choose Run as administrator. Step 2: Enter list volume to show all the volumes' information. Step 3: Input select volume x and x is the volume number of the c partition Windows 10 OS partition. Step 4: Enter extend and the unallocated space will be moved to the Windows OS partition.

This way can expand the Windows 10 OS partition with the least limitation, as you can allocate a big enough partition for the Windows 10 OS in the new larger drive and don't need to care about the data loss of other partitions. For Windows. Data Recovery. Products Articles.