can partitioning be restructured or must I start over

[Bo Grimes]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Rashkae wrote:

> Allen Meyers wrote:
>> Snapshot resides at http://s427.photobucket.com/albums/pp352/76yrold/
>> My question is can that unallocated space in the 2 places be combined to create a new partition. As a side note what about that extended 17.85 GiB that info says is busy (at least one logical partition mounted)
>> I know shows what lack of comprehension can do!!
>
> You're lucky, all your Unallocated spaces are adjacent.
>
> You need to resize the extended partition (sda3).  Once the extended
> partition takes up the entire space, then you can resize your last
> logical partition within to grow it.
>
> You will likely need to do this from a boot cd, such as the Ubuntu
> install disk, or knoppix.


I suggest GParted Live http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php