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| Change Partition size I have a Vista Ultimate laptop with drive C: 76GB NTFS basic for programs, drive D: 15GB NTFS basic for my data and 14GB not allocated. C: is full and I would like to expand the size. The 14GB resulted from a reduction of D: I assumed it will be added automatically to C: But all wrong!! How can I proceed to enlarge C:? |
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To expand C: into that free space, it must be contiguous and at the end of C:, not the beginning or behind D:. In short, you should see in Disk Manager C:, free space, then D:. If not, then you will need to move or slide the volumes around to accomplish this. A volume can only be expanded into free space that is physically located immediately after it. This operation cannot be done with Vista's drive tools, they can only shrink or expand, you need a third party one like Acronis' Disk Manager or terabyteunlimited's BootIT NG. |
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you already got a good answer. Let me take your problem as an excellent example for the self-incurred problem of partitions. One solution would have been to put just one partition on the drive in the first place, not two or more. I see that it is too late now in your case, but others may learn from it. More info here: Should a hard disk have multiple partitions? http://winhlp.com/node/373 |
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If you have one drive, when Vista came up you should have had C as you main store and D which Vista used for recovery purposes. Don't do anything with D. Don't add files there either. If you want, add a second drive and use it for more data store. |
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to create partions especially on a light travel laptop with limited disk space is really questionable (I realized too late). Nevertheless I could reasonably solve the issue by copying the data from D: to the empty 14GB at the end (temporarely named G:), than empty and deleate D:, expand C: into the old D: space and finally renamed G: back into D:. |
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Yes, that would work as well. Make sure to backup critical data before manipulating volumes as this type of work always carries a risk of something going wrong. |
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It appears your hardrive is partitioned for C: & D:. Appears to be approx. a 100G drivby. 1. visit site 4 hdd mfg i.e. seagate, maxtor etc. They may have a hdd utility to adjust the partition, deleting D: drive. This will delete all info on D: but increase C: by dding the size of d:. Copy your files from D: to C: b 4 u delete D: drive. U may review WD Data Lifeguard Tools to give u ideas. |
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