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How do I move this unallocated space to the beginning of the disk?

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Mar 15, 202633677 views
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Problem

I need to move a 420GB unallocated space, buried in an extended partition, to the beginning of the disk. Is there a way to do this using GParted? Here is the current 'fdisk -l' snapshot: And in Gparted, it looks like this: Unfortunately, when I select the unallocated space, the only operation avail…

Error Output

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identi…

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Fix for: How do I move this unallocated space to the beginning of the disk?

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Instead of trying to move the unallocated space, you should move partition(s) which are in the wrong place — in your example you need to move at least to the end of the free space, then you would be able to move the start of the extended partition. …

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