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I am running into an issue expanding my C:\ drive, which is in the middle and I have carved space before/after it for other stuff.

This is a virtual environment (VMware) and the OS is Windows 2012 R2.

I expanded the VMDK disk by +40GB so that I can expand my C:\ partition, I have done this in the past many times but never in a scenario where the partition is not last on the disk.

So if I select to expand C:\ it is grayed out, but I an expand X:.

What's the supported way of expanding C:\? This also happens to be our Exchange server so I am worried running linux based tools such as Gparted on Windows volumes/partitions..

Thanks.disk management

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    The simple answer is that you shouldn't have created the X: partition, and if you delete it you can expand C: I can't think of any sensible reasons for creating a 1GB partition directly after your C:\ partition, why did you do that? – BlueCompute Aug 18 '15 at 14:58
  • I did this because the X:\ partition holds mount points for other volumes as folders and I did not want to add the mount points of other volumes to the C:\ drive. Deleting X:\ is not an option at all. –  Aug 18 '15 at 16:03
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    Gparted is perfectly capable of handling this. – Michael Hampton Aug 18 '15 at 22:36

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Gparted works well, even for windows so don't worry about it ! by the way i didn't found something as powerfull as Gparted for windows. Use Gparted live to boot on the iso, the graphic interface will help you to extand your partition.

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With a Basic volume/partition on a Basic disk the free space has to be adjacent to the volume/partition you want to extend. You'll need to either delete X: in order to extend C:, or you'll need to use a tool like GParted>

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