Need help to repartition hard drive but to keep all installed software

it's pretty bullet-proof - so long as the power doesn't cut out halfway through the process, you'll be fine. even then, things can be restored.

over the years, i've done it many many times on lots of machines with zero problems.

it's a bit worrying the first time, but after you've done it a couple of times, you'll be doing it like a pro.

all you need do is make F: smaller, making sure that the free space gets created next to the C: partition, then make C: bigger by extending it into the empty space.

it may well take some time (several hours) as a lot of data has to be shuffled around.

quick'n'dirty graphic:

Layback Bear makes a valid point.

If the computer is your own it would be helpful if you upload your fully expanded disk management layout so that we can give you best advice - Mickey's graphics explains things rather well though. :)

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I repeat, I do think you or your company should invest in more hard drive space. By today's standards, 140 GB isn't a lot.

Providing you create a system image backup first, repartitioning your hard drive is not a difficult task.

webgirl said:

So should I try to use this Best Free Partition Manager Freeware for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition. ?

Yes.

I don't know if I have enough space on disk left to install it ...
It's kind of scary, what if I mess up my machine completely

How about just downloading the standalone bootable CD ISO to your F drive, and then burn the bootable CD from that ISO image file on F. Eventually you can/should also install the normal Win7 version but for the immediate issue, the standalone bootable CD is safe and 100% usable.

And besides, in order to enlarge C (your Win7 partition) you'd need to be out of Win7 and booted to the standalone CD anyway.

So you just boot to the standalone bootable CD you just burned, and you can do the resizing that's been recommended: (a) shrink F by moving its left edge to the right, and (b) enlarge C by moving its right edge to the right to pick up all space freed up by the shrinking of F.

The Partition Wizard GUI is truly intuitively obvious.

mickey,
thank you so much for letting me know about this program. I used Mini Tool Partition Wizard and it did the magic. I have plenty of space now.

Hugs !!!

happy to help - i told you it was easy! :)

Thank you everybody for your answers !

cute avatar! :)

It was a cartoon from my childhood ..

you're russian?