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Extending C drive into space currently allocated to D
Greetings;
I have a 500GB HDD currently partitioned into 2 (C: and D: )drives.
I want to do something pretty common, which is extend a nearly full C drive (from the current 50GB to 100GB) and shrink the remaining partition (D drive) by the same amount.
I tried using Disk Management and shrunk D by 50GB but when I went to extend C it couldn't because the free space wasn't directly to the right of the C drive (though it was technically to the right of the drive which pissed me off a little because all these threads are saying you can do it if the free space is to the right of the drive and that's not entirely accurate. It must be space immediatly to the right of the drive you want to extend (not to the right but separated by another logical partition).
Since the whole purpose in having the D drive in the first place was to hold the kids large game files, there are approx 75GB of games on it.
Here's my sitch:
I want to use Disk management to do this; not some other 3rd party software.
I have another separate HDD (E: ) with 250GB of free space on it.
Can I just move the contents of the D drive onto the E drive temporarily; delete the D partition; extend the C part.; then rename the remainding space to D, move everything back in and expect the kids games to work as they had before? Or will the registry get screwed up?
If you are an IT pro and you think there's a better way to do this, by all means.. I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance for your help :)