I made my partition to small please help

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I made my main partition for my windows drive a tad small and now I constantly
get a pop-up that says my disk space is low.

I have gone in and out of my C: to find programs I can erase and I still get
these
messages.

Is there any possible way to increase the size of a partition or am I stuck
formating the drive and losing several months of information?
 
Wishart said:
I made my main partition for my windows drive a tad small and now I constantly
get a pop-up that says my disk space is low.

I have gone in and out of my C: to find programs I can erase and I still get
these
messages.
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How big is your C drive?
Is there any possible way to increase the size of a partition or am I stuck
formating the drive and losing several months of information?
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If you have to reformat, back everything up first. You could also use
Partition Magic by Symantec but it isn't free.


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Wishart said:
Is there any possible way to increase the size of a partition or am I
stuck formating the drive and losing several months of information?
Click to expand...


First regarding "losing several months of information" if you repartition. I
assume that means that you don't back up the important contents of your
drive. You should understand that are *always* at risk of suddenyly losing
everything on your drive.

If your data is important to you, you need to back it up regularly.

Regarding resizing, unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of
changing the existing 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 to use *any* such program), but it comes highly recommended by
several other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
 
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