C: Drive Partition Size. Can I make it bigger?

[Ben Dover]

Hey everyone,

I made my C: drive partition 57.0 MB and installed
Windows. I left 54.7 MB unallacated for future expantion
possibilities. Problem is I now need more space on my
exsisting C: drive partition.

Is there anyway to take some of this unallacated space
and add it to my exsisting C: drive partition without
creating a new drive letter?

I would like to add about 20-30 MB's or so rather than
adding the entire unallacated space. I'm not sure if I
can or how to do this.

Thank In Advance!!

Ben Dover
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ron Sommer]

You will have to use a third party utility such as Partition Magic or
Bootitng.
http://www.bootitng.com download Bootit Next Generation

 

[Ken Blake]

Hey everyone,

I made my C: drive partition 57.0 MB and installed
Windows. I left 54.7 MB unallacated for future expantion
possibilities.

I assume you mean GB, not MB.

By the way, there's little reason to have left it unallocated. If
you had made it D:, you'd have pretty much all the same options
you have now.

Problem is I now need more space on my
exsisting C: drive partition.

Is there anyway to take some of this unallacated space
and add it to my exsisting C: drive partition without
creating a new drive letter?

Not with native Windows facilities. The only way to do this is to
use a third-party program such as Partition Magic or BootIt Next
Generation.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I made my C: drive partition 57.0 MB and installed
Windows. I left 54.7 MB unallacated for future expantion
possibilities. Problem is I now need more space on my
exsisting C: drive partition.

Is there anyway to take some of this unallacated space
and add it to my exsisting C: drive partition without
creating a new drive letter?

You would have to get some third party software is you do not want to
format and start over.

But really I would urge you to make the rest of the disk into a separate
partition and then move some files over to it - some logical section of
your data, like say My Videos. Don't have all eggs in a single basket of
that size

Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive. R-click
in the Unallocated space, Create Partition, format it.

Then open a window on that, another in C: to show one of the large
folders, like My Documents or My Videos, and with the *right* mouse
button, drag it across, *Move* here