Error in Using Gparted to add Unallocated space

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Published on 2012-11-29T10:38:08Z Indexed on 2012/11/29 11:21 UTC
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I'm trying to Add Unallocated space to my Ubuntu partition which is inside an extended partition. i get this error:

GParted 0.12.1 --enable-libparted-dmraid

Libparted 2.3
Move /dev/sda3 to the left and grow it from 93.31 GiB to 219.75 GiB  00:00:00        (     ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sda3  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sda3
start: 292,704,254
end: 488,394,751
size: 195,690,498 (93.31 GiB)
move partition to the left and grow it from 93.31 GiB to 219.75 GiB  00:00:00    (     ERROR )

old start: 292,704,254
old end: 488,394,751
old size: 195,690,498 (93.31 GiB)
requested start: 27,545,600
requested end: 488,392,703
requested size: 460,847,104 (219.75 GiB)
libparted messages    ( INFO )

Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Can't have overlapping partitions.

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This is the screen

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