Resize Button Grayed Out

[dave61430]

When selecting the DellUtility-0 partition on a Dell 1555 Laptop, the resize button is grayed out. Also, I have an extended partition with 16 mb free space outside at the end and again I cannot resize to recover the space, plus there is an E beside the entry. What causes this and short of deleting the extended partition and re-creating, how do I fix. Windows shows everything as healthy.

[Brian K]

Dave,

Click Properties for the Extended Partition and the Dell Partition. What does the error say?

[TeraByte Support]

The E is usually overlapping partitions or going beyond the end of the drive
(BIOS view of drive may be different than raw view).

"dave61430" wrote in message news:2791@public.bootitng...

When selecting the DellUtility-0 partition on a Dell 1555 Laptop, the resize
button is grayed out. Also, I have an extended partition with 16 mb free
space outside at the end and again I cannot resize to recover the space,
plus there is an E beside the entry. What causes this and short of deleting
the extended partition and re-creating, how do I fix. Windows shows
everything as healthy.

[dave61430]

OK, the Dell Utility reports about ending LBA size, but as far as I know it's the way machine was shipped. I finished up saving the files in the extended partition, deleting and re-created. I'm pretty sure it got messed up when I used mbrwork to restore first track. Then was able to install Ubuntu in the extended partition, letting the install do the resize etc.