Change Partition size

Hi experts
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:?

Hi Ernst,

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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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Ernst Kessler" <ErnstKessler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi experts
> 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:?

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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Regards, BobF.
"Hans-Georg Michna" <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:31:16 -0700, Ernst Kessler wrote:
>
>>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:?
>
> Ernst,
>
> 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
>
> Hans-Georg
> --
> No mail, please.

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:.
Thanks and regards
Ernst


"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Ernst,
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Ernst Kessler" <ErnstKessler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsDBD7FD7-D362-4E97-B906-7A8D6200BACF@microsoft.com...
> > Hi experts
> > 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:?
>
>

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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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Ernst Kessler" <ErnstKessler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E8B5908B-D41C-4B5F-B8FB-1A76C34A1534@microsoft.com...
> 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:.
> Thanks and regards
> Ernst
>
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi Ernst,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Ernst Kessler" <ErnstKessler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> newsDBD7FD7-D362-4E97-B906-7A8D6200BACF@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi experts
>> > 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:?
>>
>>