Hard drive partition assistance-please

[liv2ski]

So I thought by reducing the size of drive D the excess space would be allocated to the C drive. Nope. So how do I get the unallocated space into C as it is about maxed out. I am using Windows 7. Thanks

[stuckathuntermtn]

edit for reading comprehension.
You can't manipulate active boot partitions. If you have a tool like a GParted boot CD you can do it pretty easily. You should back everything up first, just in case.
http://gparted.org/
It's a small Linux boot CD and you can manage partitions. If this feels like something you are uncomfortable with doing, just drop it. Yeah, it's annoying how manufacturers partition drives.

[Cocximus]

Whoa, do you have porn on standby in that recovery partition?

[liv2ski]

Whoa, do you have porn on standby in that recovery partition?

Nope, so no need to back it up So no easier fix than what Stuck suggested?

[stuckathuntermtn]

Right click where it says C: where your arrow points. Is the option to extend drive grayed out? If not, click it. If yes, not really.

[MESH]

Right click where it says C: where your arrow points. Is the option to extend drive grayed out? If not, click it. If yes, not really.

Extending the partition is the easiest way but the option will be grayed out since the data in D needs to be moved to the end of the drive. Disk management can't move data.

[mcski]

Opposing question. I should know this but am having brain freeze. How do I get rid of / delete a partition on a Mac? Don't use it anymore and I want to free up all the space on the drive.

[RShea]

Extending the partition is the easiest way but the option will be grayed out since the data in D needs to be moved to the end of the drive. Disk management can't move data.

Yes, this is correct. While there are many 3rd party utilities to expand the C drive without full backup, reformatting and doing it with the tools Microsoft includes, you have to have the space right next to the partition. So you need to move the D drive to the end so the un-allocated free space is next to the C: partition. If you have GParted, or Easeus utilities (not 100% sure if Easeus is free or if it takes one of their paid ones to do this)

Still a good idea to make sure you have a backup of all the stuff just in case. You have to follow the steps also just right as 1 wrong entry may end up having the drive partitions toast.

[liv2ski]

I downloaded the trial version of Easeus. Not real obvious how to move D to the end. Maybe I would have better luck merging the unallocated space back into D, but again, not real obvious how to do this. Per the below screen shot, I do not see an option to merge D with the unallocated space. Any suggestions? Thanks

[liv2ski]

OK, so I moved some unallocated space next to C, but I can not figure out how to get that space into C??? I have tried to resize C to absorb the unallocted space, but all the tool does is move the unallocated space from between C & D to in front of C. It does not merge into C. Puzzling.

[stuckathuntermtn]

You have to extend C. You can't do it when you boot from C.

[RShea]

You only gained 10 MB (megabyte- not Gigabyte) of space. That is hardly worth the effort (other than playing with the tool to get familiar with the process). Also Easeus has multiple tools- you did the trial (and at some point may have to purchase it to do advanced stuff - I do not remember if Easeus gives the trial with so many days of full function or not, sorry you will have to research that).

That being said you can do this 2 ways the first easiest but most time consuming way is to copy and BACKUP all data off of D drive- verify the backup first before you go on to the next step. Delete the D partition, resize C partition with the amount somewhere around slightly less than 100GB (66 plus the 24 free). Then recreate the D partition of 42 GB at the end of the new C partition) and then restore the data you backed up.

Other way is to follow this article including using the Free version of their software mentioned. http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...g-parition.htm It as I stated requires you to move all of D partition to the end of the drive as shown in the article, then have the free space next to the C partition and then do the steps to resize the C partition again just as discussed in the article. Also notice that the licensing of the free version is for Home (non-business usage) and if this is a business PC or for commercial use, you should go and purchase the paid version of the trial.

[RShea]

Once the D partition is moved, then the C partition resizing can be followed by watching and viewing the video:

http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...o-tutorial.htm

[liv2ski]

You have to extend C. You can't do it when you boot from C.

Not helpful, but thanks for trying.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Stop fucking with your harddisk.

[mee1fb]

Thanks for sharing that much of info and knowledge here it really helps me alot it may also help others

[lucknau]

In Windows 7 you can extend C using the Windows disk management utility above, even though you boot from C. It just does the repartitioning and implements on reboot. I have to do this all the time at work because the IT dorks are lazy and just plop a 200GB Windows image on our 1 TB drives and don't extend the partition before handing it over to us.

First you need to move D to the end of the space. You should be able to unmount D and move it, and then (maybe reboot first, and) mount D again and then extend C into the freed space between the two. Or, why don't you just back up D and delete the D partition and then extend C to fill the whole drive? Multiple partitions are a pain in the ass in Windows anyway.