Can't format a bad ex-linux partition

Hello all,

I used to have Ubuntu, xp and vista triple boot but recently I decided to just delete xp which somehow shared "one" partition at the end of my internal harddrive and my ubuntu got corrupted and there wasn't enough space so it didn't work properly, so I decided to wipe the xp part of the partition and the ubuntu part of it (the rest at the very end) and I tried to merge them together,

After that, something weird happened, my vista is working fine, it's in the beginning, and at the end I have this unformatted unallocated space that once used to be XP and Ubuntu and everytime I try to format it in Vista I get a BSOD.

I tried to boot Slax Linux from a CD (gparted) and try to format and merge it with vista so I could have just one partition with only vista on it, but even in Slax when I try to do it, it just freezes...

I don't know what's going on here, I tried many partition tools, boot CDs, it just doesn't work..

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

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Tried gparted, no luck. This is what it looks like:



The disk is shown but can't be formatted or opened

 

So wait, you are trying to extend the 10gb partition into the remaining 5gb unallocated space?

I also just want to point out that it looks like those two partitions are nested within a larger, logical drive.

Why wouldn't you just delete those two partitions and then delete the logical drive? After that you could extend the vista partition across the remaining unallocated space. Have you tried this?

This should be possible with gparted running from a live cd.