Hi, Ron.
As Jawade said, use Disk Management, a built-in part of every version of
Windows starting with Windows 2000. There are several ways to start it; my
favorite is to just press the Start button, type diskmgmt.msc and press
Enter. You'll need the Administrator password to get past this point.
In Disk Management, by default you should see the volume list in the top of
the window and the Graphical View at the bottom; just two ways to look at
the same information. From this window, we can manage our hard disk
partitions (and just about any other device that can be assigned a "drive"
letter, such as a CD/DVD drive, a USB flash drive, etc.). We can create and
format partitions, name them, assign and reassign letters, and do other
jobs, too. (While "partition" and "volume" are not truly synonymous, they
are often used to mean the same thing. In Disk Management, click Help |
Help Topics | Disk Management Welcome for lots of good information that most
computer users never get around to learning.)
In your case, if I understand what you've told us so far, you should see
your Drive C:, followed by the partition that held Kubuntu. That partition
may now be completely empty, but it is not yet "Free Space" because it is
still a part of that empty partition. If that's correct, then right-click
on the Kubuntu partition and click Delete Volume and confirm that you are
sure. You should then see that area as Free Space.
NOW you can right-click on Drive C: and choose Extend volume. That option
is greyed out unless the space immediately following the chosen volume is
free, but it should now be available.
If you don't see what I expect, please post back with details about what
volumes are on that hard drive.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
"Ron K." <RonK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've never had to deal with Parttions before so forgive my ignorance....
>
> I am using Vitsa Home Premium and decided to dual boot with Kubuntu which
> I
> absolutely hated. I removed Kubuntu by deleting the partition then
> restoring
> the boot manager for Vista.
>
> The partition that contained Kubuntu is now empty. I would like to merge
> the
> partition back into Vista. How do I do this?