Disk Management - Cannot Extend Volume - Grayed out

Hello,
i can not select extend volume as it is grayed out.
im wanting to extend my windows 7 partition into the unallocated space to the right of it, but cant.
i also have a small 30mb partition left over im wanting to extend the xp partition into it, this is also grayed out.
please help.

Hi there,
If you want to extend volume, you should make sure there is no partition between the original partition and free space (PS: it will not work if the free space is in "Extended partition"). Attached a simple screenshot in my test machine:
http://cid-9c88b7cb6fa32a48.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Extend.jpg
If you have dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 7, I suggest you create new partition with left free space and mount this partition as a folder to XP (or Windows 7 ) partition which is quite easy.
What do you think about it?
The OP is right on this one, and the replies are not accurate. I too have Win 7 installed on C: and on its own during setup is used only 100gb of my 1tb drive. So I have 900gb unallocated.
Win 7 will not allow C: to be extended to use the unallocated space. The option is grayed out.

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