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vasant910
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Sep 09, 2022

Disk Management extended volume over active volume

I had external Disk (2TB)  with 4 partitions approx 250GB (used by Mac) 450GB Not used first voluime(E) had about 450Gb and partition (F) had about 500GB. Both NTFS and had DATA(E) and Pictures (F)  on these 2 volumes. 

When I extended E (first partition) to get additions space from partition 450GB unallocated which is before this partition.  Document says it will not allow it and it will also will not extend unless there is unallocated space after current partition  (E). But some reason it extended and made 3rd partition combining partition 3 and 4 (even though partition 4 is active at the time).  So now it shows last partition with E.  (MAC-VASANT)

I can see all files those were in E (same as before). But files of F can not be seen on disk.  

Questions

(1) Why did it extend over active partition which is allocated?

(2) Can I undo the extend operation?

(3) How canI see files of F (Prictures) partition (They are on disk but I can't see it as I didnot delte anyting.)  I have all pictures backup on this partition.  

ANY HELP or SUGGESTIONS will be appreciated..

 

Here is output from diskpart (after extend).

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 238 GB 4096 KB *
Disk 1 Online 1862 GB 0 B

 

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 200 MB 512 B
Partition 2 Primary 232 GB 200 MB
Partition 3 Primary 465 GB 233 GB
Partition 4 Primary 1164 GB 698 GB

 

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 191 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 1 D Unkno Partition 45 GB Healthy
Volume 2 NTFS Partition 499 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System
Volume 4 NTFS Partition 623 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 5 E MAC-VASANT NTFS Partition 1164 GB Healthy

 

 

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    vasant910
    Copper Contributor

     Found out that partitions on disks are intact as before - when I connected to MacBook. So I am going to copy- backup all data on new external drive and repartition current drive.

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