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How to resize a partition with Windows 7 Home 64-bit Disk Management?
Tried to use the Disk Management utility, reading the list of threads I came across a quote of "How to geek" that someone quoted, I learned that the resizing of a partition is only possible with contiguous space.
Well, here is my problem: how do I create unallocated free space contiguous to my OS partition when the sequence i now have is:
C drive -a 25GB partition NTFS- (which I had created just for the OS),
then a 100MB 'Healthy' (System, Active, Primary Partition),
then a 17GB 'Unallocated' space,
then D drive -a 102GB NTFS 'Healthy' (Primary partition) ... and
then 5GB of' 'Unallocated' Space
So if I do not have contiguous unallocated space to take from to enlarge the OS partition in C drive (cause the 100Mb, reserved by the OS for itself, is in between).
How do I solve this problem?
I did try using the Disk Management utility, followed the instructions ... shrunk the D partition and created the unallocated spaces, now they exist before and after the empty D drive, but the C partition which I want to enlarge is isolated and did not get the extra space (wanted to make the partition 5GB bigger like in 30GB).
Windows took less than 19 GB, so figured I would use D partition to store all the other Software Programs, but it seems that 'by default' they all land inside the partition with the OS. Is this something that could be avoided, cause I have not uploaded most of my Software to the SSD yet cause the OS partition is running out of space cause of this last fact. Can I change that? directing my downloads to the D partition drive?
Even if possible, I would rather redirect all other software to the D partition instead of making more room in the OS partition to accommodate the Software Programs.
It goes without saying that i am hoping that any possible solution would include the preservation of all existing software and data.
Hope this is clear enough to explain what is going on in here, wished I could have made it more summarized but I could not.
I will appreciate your contributions.
Thank you kindly.