Desperate for C Drive Extension Help

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  1. Posts : 5
    Windows 7
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    Desperate for C Drive Extension Help


    I apologize in advance being that I am a novice. (Below is what my situation currently looks like)

    Desperate for C Drive Extension Help-drive.png

    So this summer i decided to take on beat making. I found a software to download, but unfortunately when I attempted to download the software my computer revealed to me that my (C) Drive was full. I decided that I should extend the c drive by using the disk management on my laptop. I proceeded to shrink the (D) Drive (the Data drive), and created roughly 350gb of free space. Then I right clicked on my (C) Drive in an effort to extend it when to my surprise there was no option for that.

    To cut the long story short i googled my problem and found this forum with problems similiar to mine. I discovered that the reason why I cannot extend my (C) drive is because of the green envelope, (which the computer labeled an extended partition), surrounding my unallocated, or "Free space". I have downloaded a partition wizard and done many other things yet i still have no luck with dropping the envelope.

    In the picture above is where I am now. I know that my unallocated or "Free space " must be adjacent to the drive I want to extend, and I know how to do that with my partition wizard, but the only question I have is when I finally move the (A) Drive so that my (C) Drive and unallocated or "Free Space" are adjacent, how then do I drop the dark green envelope around the "Free Space" so that I may extend my (C) drive into the "Free Space"!

    Help soon would be appreciated!
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  2. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    You need to delete all 3 of those partitions then delete the entire extended partition, then add space to C:

    Backup your data 1st, I see no reason to put the page file way over there, probably just makes it slower, keep it with C:

    What is the point in having such small partitions ?

    The Windows partition should be at least 100 to 150 GBs

    DO NOT try to make another Primary Partition with Disk Management, use Partition Wizard.
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  3. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Pro x64
       #3

    Agreed. The free space you seek to add to C: is on an extended partition.
    You must delete the extended partition in order to make the free space available to add to C:

    Good luck
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    x64 (6.3.9600) Win8.1 Pro & soon dual boot x64 (6.1.7601) Win7_SP1 HomePrem
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Ok Thank you for even replying to my post. First of all when you say delete the 3 partitions do you mean that I delete the (A), the "free space", and the (D)? If so would I execute this on the drive manager? And the reasoning for my small partitions is a result of my ignorant experimentation.
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  6. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #6

    After resizing be sure to place the pagefile on C:. From a performance standpoint the current location is the worst possible.
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  7. Posts : 5
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #7

    LMiller7 said:
    After resizing be sure to place the pagefile on C:. From a performance standpoint the current location is the worst possible.
    What do you mean by all this? I apologize for my inexperience so if you could be as detailed as possible that would help alot.
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  8. Posts : 5
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #8

    AddRAM said:
    You need to delete all 3 of those partitions then delete the entire extended partition, then add space to C:

    Backup your data 1st, I see no reason to put the page file way over there, probably just makes it slower, keep it with C:

    What is the point in having such small partitions ?

    The Windows partition should be at least 100 to 150 GBs

    DO NOT try to make another Primary Partition with Disk Management, use Partition Wizard.
    Thanks so much i followed your advice in the partition wizard and it worked!! God bless.
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  9. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #9

    Excellent

    A page file is a part of your hard drive that acts as memory, called virtual memory.

    https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...%20page%20file

    Would you post another shot of disk management if you don`t mind :)

    Your page file is normally with C: Windows, somehow it got moved to the D partition you created, post the shot and we`ll help you further.
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  10. Posts : 5
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #10

    AddRAM said:
    Excellent

    A page file is a part of your hard drive that acts as memory, called virtual memory.

    https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...%20page%20file

    Would you post another shot of disk management if you don`t mind :)

    Your page file is normally with C: Windows, somehow it got moved to the D partition you created, post the shot and we`ll help you further.
    Thanks again for helping me. I hope this is what is supposed to look like.

    Desperate for C Drive Extension Help-driver-fixed.png
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