GParted Live Tutorial - Extend Your Drive in Windows

hi everyone in this video I'm going to be discussing about G pardon and where it would be commonly used so what is g pardon G parted which stands for known partition editor which is a free partition editor so you can create delete move resize and copy your disk partitions and your file systems so a common example is if your C drive is running low on space and you want to add additional space so let's say it's 250 gigs and you're using up 245 gigs so you bought a new 512 gig Drive image to your old drive using Clonezilla then restored it to your new 512 gig drive but when you go to Windows Disk Management you're not able to extend it the option is grayed out this is because of how versions of Windows 7 and up sets up the partitions on your system so that is where G parted would come in to help so I'm running Windows 10 and opening up Explorer here going to this PC my local disk C drive is 24.4 gigs 4.54 gigs free and I'm going to open up Disk Management and Disk Management comes up and you can see here that I have 100 gigs free here and 24 gigs is my C drive here and if I right click on it the extend volume is grayed out this is because the free space the 100 gigabytes here is not contiguous so it needs to be beside it which it's not so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use G pardon to help with this so I'm going to go and download G pardon G parted live download Okay g part of download Go download and I'm going to download the ISO file amd64.iso okay and while that is downloading I'm going to download Rufus and Rufus will allow me to create a bootable USB drive with IG parted on it there are other options like ventoy but I'm going to use Rufus for this video okay it's finished downloading opening up the folder I'm going to put in a USB drive okay it's the e Drive here all right I'm going to start Rufus all right and I'm going to put G parted onto the USB drive select G parted partition scheme MBR Target system bias sorry ufi live and start an ISO image mode recommended and hit yes for this and hit OK just going to fast forward through this see it's completed I'm going to close these windows here and boot from the USB drive this is what you'll see the gnome partition editor here and so we're going to pick the first option so it's G parted live to default settings I'm going to hit enter okay and it's asking here the key map of course the layout of symbols on the keyboard so I just pick a don't touch key map just hit enter and now it's asking you which language do you prefer and 33 that's a U.S English so you can just keep the default so you just hit enter and here it's asking you about entering the graphical environment and it's going to if you choose zero however graphical environment x windows fails to start you can run pseudoforce video to configure it and so you can just use the default which is zero so you can just hit enter and it'll continue to start X which is the program to run the GUI and it's using Debian for this okay it has started up by G parted and so I'm just going to go over through the different menu options here so there's G parted to refresh the devices on your system here and then there's devices and this is my drive here it's 126 gig drive and then edit so you can undo clear and apply your operations The View you can view your device information pending operations file system supports device create partition table attempt data rescue don't need to worry about this for this video here and then there's partition new you don't need to worry about that and then there's information and then the help so starting up from the petitions at the top we have the EFI system partition 100 megabytes and it has the bootable flag on it so this is where it boots from when your system starts up this is second partition here it's a Microsoft reserved partition and then so 16 megabytes here and this is our C drive here the 24.45 gigabytes here and then next is the NTFS it's a hidden partition here it's 522 megabytes it's for Recovery purposes and then finally we have the free space here 100 gigabytes in size okay so what needs to be done is we got to move the 522 megabyte Windows recovery partition down and it's on the free space to 100 gigabytes will be moved up and it would be contiguous to the C drive partition here and then to do that we click on the recovery partition the 522 megabytes we right click on it we're going to resize slash move and then here it's going to ask us the free space preceding it so it's going to be all of it so one zero three three four eight and then the partition stays the same size and the free space will be zero and then so we're going to align it to the cylinder and then we're going to hit resize slash move and then gives us a warning here moving a partition might cause your operating system to fail to boot that's if you're moving the Windows system partition C and in this case we're not moving the windows partition C so this does not apply to us so we're going to hit OK and we see here there's one operation pending and it's going to move the partition this is the Windows recovery partition to the right so it's moving it to the bottom and then the free space is now before the C drive so it's going to be contiguous and all we have to do now is we've got to hit the check box here so this will apply all operations so we're going to hit it and it's asking us are you sure you want to apply the pending operations so apply yes I'm just going to go through the motions and you can hit details and so here it will show you what it's done afterwards you can hit close and then all we need to do is just reboot the system here and have it boot into windows so to do that so you can click here at the X to close the window then we're going to go to exit double click and it's asking us where we want to do it so we want to reboot it so we're going to hit OK just want to reboot it and it's asking us to remove the live medium close the tray and press enter to continue so I'm going to remove it I'm going to hit enter when Windows boot it will likely have to do a disk check this is because of the changes we made which is normal so let it do the disk check and do not skip it okay and has booted into windows okay I'm going to log in okay and it's booted in now I'm going to go to start and I'm going to go into Disk Management again this management is loaded up and here we have the 100 gigabytes it's now contiguous it's now next to the C drive and at the end we have the recovery partition 122 megabytes that's we had moved so if we open up Explorer here and we go to this PC and so the local disk there's 24.4 gigabytes what we're going to do right click and we're going to extend volume we're going to hit next and it's going to say you can only extend the volume to the variable space shown below because your disk cannot be converted to dynamic or the volume being standard is a boot or system volume so available and selected so this is all the free space one zero three three four seven megabytes and so the total volume will now be 128.383 so we're going to hit next and then we're going to hit finish so we see the C drive now is 125.37 gigabytes and we go back to Explorer we refresh we're going to hit F5 and we now see it's 125 gigabytes in total size we have 104 gigabytes free so this is how you would use G part to extend your disk thank you for watching and see you next time bye now

Channel: KMDTech

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Keywords: gparted, gparted live tutorial, gparted live windows, Disk Management, Gparted usb live, Unallocated space

Id: MhPwXJNS4uA

Length: 10min 52sec (652 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 24 2023