Change Partition size

[Ernst Kessler]

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:?

 

[Rick Rogers]

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

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Bob F.]

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.

 

[Ernst Kessler]

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]

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

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com