12-25-2014, 02:19 AM
When you boot from a live DVD/USB, if there is a swap partition detected on the hard drive, it will automatically use it. The swap partition is within the extended partition and as long as it's in use you won't be able to make changes to the extended partition. Just right-click swap, choose "Swapoff", then you should be able to expand extended partition, etc.
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