windows 7 - Error when resizing partition

I need help with resizing a partition.

What I have so far:

I currently have a single hard drive with 3 partitions.

Partition 1 has 11.4GB. It is my recovery partition and so I don't really want to change it in any way. It has 3Gb free

Partition 2 has 160Gb and 22Gb. This had Windows 7 installed onto it. I need this partition to release or give away the free space to the partition 3.

Partition 3 has only 14Gb and 1Gb free. I want to add the 22 or 20Gb of free space from partition 2 to this one. This is currently running Windows 8.1.

What I have tried:

• I have tried using windows tool to first shrink the volume so that I can extended to the one that I need it for however after shrink it tells me that I do not have enough space for this partition


• I have also tried using "Partition manager 15" to resize the two volumes straight however it told me to restart because the drives needed to accessed deeply. After boot it ran a long, what looked like scan, which done absolutely nothing to it.

My question is that is there a way to fix my first try or another method of doing this?

Note: I am actually unable to boot into the Windows 7 OS so I have to do everything in Windows 8.1. I do however have important files in the Windows 7 partition which I am able to access(So I don't want to format that).

Lastly I don't want to have to reinstall any version of windows again.

Answer

Fixed it used a different partition tool called Mini tools Partition Wizard