Siper1 said:
Can I add unallocated space to a drive that has already been
formated? I have 70Gb of unallocated space on my HD that I need to
assign to my C: dirve and don't want to have to go through a
complete rebooot or lose any data. Any suggestions? Is it possible
to move the C: Drive contents to another partion, reformat the C:,
and then move back without hindering any system operations?
Not if C: is your boot drive; you would lose your operating system
due to the format. Also, you cannot avoid doing reboots for any of
these type processes; time to buy a legit copy of windows. Keep in
mind that a format destroys all data on the drive being formatted.
Why would you say that? Does a "legit" copy of windows allow one to
perform the operations the op asked about?
Time to get a working brain, more like...
Because it's likely true, and because the OP said he has to avoid
a "complete reboot".
The OP did not say they *had* to avoid a "complete reboot" (which I take to
mean a clean installation)... The OP stated they 'don't want to have to go
through a complete rebooot or lose any data'...
I don't take that to mean they cannot do this - but they would prefer *not*
to - and I can agree with that (assuming 'a complete rebooot' in their terms
means a clean installation in reality.) Who wants to copy all of their
stuff, format and install everything again, put all of their stuff back?
Tedious, time consuming and partly why products like Ghost and TrueImage
exist.
Not wanting to do something and having to avoid something are different by
scale. Yes - you can do both at the same time (I don't want to get shot, I
have to avoid getting shot) bot the latter implies you have no choice and
the OP clearly inferred they had the option of doing so - they just did not
want to.
There are couple of ways to do what the OP wants to do and avoid the
complete installation nightmare.
- Use a third party partition management application to expand their
partiton to utilize the unpartitioned space.
- Use a third party imaging application to make an image of the current
partition and then delete the partition, create the new partition and apply
the image to the new partition - it should adjust for them.
In either case (although it *should be* redundant in the second one) they
should first do an additional backup before proceding. I say 'additional'
because they should be backing up their own files in a consistent periodic
scheduled way already.
There are likely more ways to do it cleanly and easily - but those are two
very tried and tested ways that have proven themselves..