Getting extra disk space back

[Andy]

I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to
the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a total
disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD.

Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
helps.

Thanks.

Andy.

 

[Ken Blake]

I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to
the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a total
disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD.

Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
helps.

Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what
you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known
such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such
program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free
30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30 days.
I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program, but it
comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

 

[Andy]

Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what
you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known
such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such
program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free
30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program,
but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

Thanks I might give that a try.

Andy.

 

[Michael Solomon]

Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what
you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known
such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such
program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free
30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program,
but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly than
Bootit.

 

[Andy]

And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly than
Bootit.

Yep, looks like that Acronis Disk Director 10 is the one I am looking for
however its not free :-( not worth me paying just to get 10gb onto my drive
c I may as well leave it partitioned as is.

Thanks,

Andy.

 

[Mhzjunkie]

Andy spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:

Yep, looks like that Acronis Disk Director 10 is the one I am looking
for however its not free :-( not worth me paying just to get 10gb
onto my drive c I may as well leave it partitioned as is.

Hiren's BootCD

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Mhzjunkie

1 PRINT "Windows Vista ERROR"
GOTO 1
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[Ed M.]

Thanks I might give that a try.

Andy.

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 is also very good and plays nicely in Vista.

Ed

 

[Ken Blake]

Thanks I might give that a try.

You're welcome. Glad to help.