Complete newbie question

[DocBrown]

Can you post a screen shot of disk management? I think you might need to delete the free space and make it unallocated space instead.

~Lordbob

Thanks for all your help. This solved my problem. Deleted the space , then right clicked and expanded volume.

Another satisfied New Member

 

[Lordbob75]

Can you post a screen shot of disk management? I think you might need to delete the free space and make it unallocated space instead.

~Lordbob

Thanks for all your help. This solved my problem. Deleted the space , then right clicked and expanded volume.

Awesome! That was just a guess, but thank you for confirming that!

Can you post a screen shot of disk management? I think you might need to delete the free space and make it unallocated space instead.

~Lordbob

Thanks for all your help. This solved my problem. Deleted the space , then right clicked and expanded volume.

Another satisfied New Member

Indeed, all in a day's work!

~Lordbob

 

[Petey7]

Glad to see my friends got you sorted. I'm also happy to see how fast the calvary arrives.

 

[happujd]

Glad to see my friends got you sorted. I'm also happy to see how fast the calvary arrives.

Me too! Thanks again.

 

[CyberZeus]

I think he had an Extended Partition with a drive letter.

 

[BisVal]

Better not merge the partitions. It is always safer to have at least two partitions. On C You can leave the space for documents and program files. On D put all Your photos , music, videos, downloads and installation files. In that way when something gone bad You can preinstall the OS and it will affect only C drive and all Your stuff will be safe.

 

[CyberZeus]

Better not merge the partitions. It is always safer to have at least two partitions. On C You can leave the space for documents and program files. On D put all Your photos , music, videos, downloads and installation files. In that way when something gone bad You can preinstall the OS and it will affect only C drive and all Your stuff will be safe.

I think it's better to make scheduled backups, like me. Every night my stuff and my wife stuff are backed up to another hdd and to an external hdd. So I have: one running copy, an internal hdd copy and an external copy.

 

[Pusspa]

Better not merge the partitions. It is always safer to have at least two partitions. On C You can leave the space for documents and program files. On D put all Your photos , music, videos, downloads and installation files. In that way when something gone bad You can preinstall the OS and it will affect only C drive and all Your stuff will be safe.

problem with this method is when the hard drive dies it dosent matter how many partitions you have, now days just get an external hard drive and copy ur stuff to that.

EDIT: or a usb stick, or memory card!

 

[CyberZeus]

Better not merge the partitions. It is always safer to have at least two partitions. On C You can leave the space for documents and program files. On D put all Your photos , music, videos, downloads and installation files. In that way when something gone bad You can preinstall the OS and it will affect only C drive and all Your stuff will be safe.

problem with this method is when the hard drive dies it dosent matter how many partitions you have, now days just get an external hard drive and copy ur stuff to that.

EDIT: or a usb stick, or memory card!

Exactly. I make backups for this.

 

[kah22]

Hi Guys, first time here, and good morning from Ireland.


Anyway I'm asking basically the same question as the OP about expanding the C: Drive and like the original poster I'm not that keyed into Windows 7


Here's my setup
100 MB healthy (oem partition)
Recovery 9.77 GB NTFS (Healthy System Active Primary Partition
OS C: 58.58 GB NTFS
D 397.30 GB NYFS


All my programs are installed on the C Drive and already 25.6 GB of the original 58.5 has been used up with everything that was pre-installed and the few programs I've added since then.


I've already saved quite a bit of material to my D; Drive, but nothing that couldn't be safely transferred to an external hard drive.


From reading other forums the general advice seems to be to leave C alone. But I'm concerned that that space will rapidly be used up if I install some of the space demanding programs on the market today, like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I'd be installing programs to C and saving to D.


So the question is this: is it wise to shrink the D drive and expand the C drive by say 50 GB or am I been overly concerned about nothing – maybe I have more than enough space for program installation?


I'd appreciate some feedback


Its a Dell Inspirion Laptop with 4GB Ram memory, with i5 processor.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello kah22, welcome to Seven Forums!



The program listed in the tutorial at the link below will do exactly what you need, just follow the excellent directions given by gregrocker in the quote below.

Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

If you don't want to move your data off D.

Boot PW CD, selecvt 1 for screen res, rightclick on D, select Resize, grab left grey border and slide it to right to make enough room to expand your C Win7 partition to where you want it, click OK.

Now rightclick on C, select Resize, grab right grey border to slide it all the way to right up to the new left border you made for D, OK, Apply all steps.

 

[kah22]

Thanks Bare Foot Kid for the welcome and answer.

Before going messing abut with my computer, I'm wondering if the spare 34 GB of spare disk space is sufficient for today's programs. If I thought it was then I'd leave well enough alone.

As a matter of information it will be a pure business/home office machine - no games.

Kevin

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Thanks Bare Foot Kid for the welcome and answer.

Before going messing abut with my computer, I'm wondering if the spare 34 GB of spare disk space is sufficient for today's programs. If I thought it was then I'd leave well enough alone.

As a matter of information it will be a pure business/home office machine - no games.

Kevin

Hello again.



During installation you could point the programs/apps to the "data" partition instead of letting them install to their default location, just create a separate folder for each, where they can install to so that they have a defined boundary and so you'll know what's what. I have almost nothing installed to my C: as I too am limited in usable space because of an SSD that I have as my boot drive.