Partitioning a macbook pro

I partitioned my macbook pro a while ago, but the bottom half of the partition is being used as the main one. Now I want to change it over to the top half as I am running out of space. I tried dragging the corners towards the top but it won't work. I also tried changing the start up disk but cannot as there is only one system that shows up in system preference. please help me out anyone

That is not a permitted operation. You would have to erase the top partition, then clone the bottom partition to the top; then, you need to remove the bottom partition and extend the remaining partition to enable the entire drive as a single partition/volume.
If you have data in the upper partition that you wish to retain, then it may be easier to create a single volume on an external drive, boot from the external drive, repartition the internal drive then clone the external drive to the internal drive.

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