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by: bilsch01 - Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:22 UTC

My HDD is 238 GiB.
My PC had 95 GiB ntfs partition (Windows) followed by 2 ext4 partitions
for Ubuntu.
It was booting thru a Grub menu to select either Windows or Ubuntu.
I deleted the two ext4 parts. Now there's about 141 GiB empty space
following the 95 GiB Windows part.
Now at start up the old boot menu doesn't display but a Grub prompt is
there.
Type EXIT at the Grub prompt, and it boots Windows fine.
No problem.

Now I want to DISKPART extend the Windows partition by about 98 GiB.
If I use DISKPART I have to do this while Windows is running.
QUESTION 1: Will that work?
QUESTION 2: Will Windows still boot thru the Grub prompt (described
above) or could the much bigger size cause a glitch?

TIA. Bill S.

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by: bilsch01 - Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:31 UTC

On 10/12/2023 10:22 PM, bilsch01 wrote:
> My HDD is 238 GiB.
> My PC had 95 GiB ntfs partition (Windows) followed by 2 ext4 partitions
> for Ubuntu.
> It was booting thru a Grub menu to select either Windows or Ubuntu.
> I deleted the two ext4 parts. Now there's about 141 GiB empty space
> following the 95 GiB Windows part.
> Now at start up the old boot menu doesn't display but a Grub prompt is
> there.
> Type EXIT at the Grub prompt, and it boots Windows fine.
> No problem.
>
> Now I want to DISKPART extend the Windows partition by about 98 GiB.
> If I use DISKPART I have to do this while Windows is running.
> QUESTION 1: Will that work?
> QUESTION 2: Will Windows still boot thru the Grub prompt (described
> above) or could the much bigger size cause a glitch?
>
> TIA. Bill S.

I figured it all out. Thanks.

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potential glitches extending Windows partition?	bilsch01
PLEASE DISREGARD THE ORIGINAL POST, THANKS.	bilsch01