My Windows 7 partition is entirely too small!!!!

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  1. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
       #11

    whs said:
    If you want to enlarge C with Disk Management,

    1. Save everything from D to an external drive.
    2. Then right click on D and delete the volume to get unallocated space.
    3. Right click on C and extend it to at least 50GB
    4. Right click on the remaining unallocated space and define a new D partition
    5. Move the saved data back to D

    That is the easiest way to do it. Else you will need another program like Partition Wizard. But even then I would first backup the data on D for safety reasons.
    whs said:
    Regardless what you do, backup your data from D first. Last time I used PW, I lost 3 whole partitions - it was, of course, my fault. But it is easy to make a mistake. Fortunatey I had an image of everything.

    I still think it would be easier for you to use Disk Management as described above.
    Agree +1 :)
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  2. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Home 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #12

    I don't have an external handy ... so that option isn't very realistic.

    I see that with this PW program I can only merge if I pay...
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  3. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #13

    Did you use the bootable CD version?
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  4. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #14

    If you have no external disk, you can do another trick. Before I can give you the procedure, tell me how much data you have on D. It would be extremely dangerous to work on a partition without saving the data first - unless you do not care about your data.
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  5. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Home 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #15

    I have used 32.4 GB on D partition
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  6. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Home 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #16

    ignatzatsonic said:
    Did you use the bootable CD version?
    I tried to burn the bootable disk... but it wouldn't run.

    I burned it through WIN7's dvd burner, another thing is I really couldn't figure out which file I should be burning :P
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  7. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #17

    OK, here is what I suggest. Problem that we have to work around a restriction of Disk Management which can only extend a partition if the freespace is directly to the right of the partition. Now do this - it looks like a lot but each step takes only a couple of minutes.

    1. Open Disk Management - Type disk management into Start/search and it will show up.

    2. Since you have already shrunk 50GB from D, use this unallocated space to define a new partition E. Right click un the unallocated space and create partition. The wizard will tell you the steps.

    3. Move your data from D to E

    4. Right click on D and delete volume

    5. Right click on C and extend volume - add about 40GBs. The wizard will guide you.

    6. Now you have remaining unallocated space. Right click on that and create partition - we will recreate D using all the unallocated space.

    7. move your data back from E to D.

    8. Delete volume E - by now you should be a pro (LOL)

    9. Right click on D and extend with the free space gaines from the deleted E.

    10. You are all set - print this instruction out, then you can follow it easily. And buy an external disk. Without it, you have only half a computer.
    Last edited by whs; 04 Apr 2011 at 12:18.
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  8. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Home 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #18

    Currently moving everything over to E.

    What's the reason I can't just delete the E drive and use that unallocated space to merge with C? I noticed I couldn't do that... why will I be able to do that with D?
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  9. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #19

    Disk Management will let you expand a partition into unallocated space only if that unallocated space is immediately to the right of the partition to be enlarged.
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  10. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Home 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #20

    ignatzatsonic said:
    Disk Management will let you expand a partition into unallocated space only if that unallocated space is immediately to the right of the partition to be enlarged.
    Directly to the right of my C drive is SYSTEM RESERVE which is 100mb... is that going to be an issue
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