Solved Problem adding space to my C drive???

[Bare Foot Kid]

OK that looks good, have you moved everything from the F: to the G: drive?


I'm trying to get you to the place where you can add to the C: but Windows has a specific way of doing things and it will not do it the way you want to.

Now move everything from F: to G: and if you leave anything on F: it will be lost forever.

Have a look at this tutorial at the link below, the Move To method works very well moving data from one drive/partition to another.

Context Menu - Add Copy To Folder and Move To Folder

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Post back when you get everything moved off the F: drive.

 

[provlima]

All data moved from f to G

I moved all the data to G...what's the next step??
Jim

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello again Jim.


If you are sure there's no data you need left on F: ...

Right click the F: Logical and click delete, then restart the PC.

Post back here after you have restarted the PC and we'll go on from there.

 

[provlima]

Hi,
deleted the F partition the space now appears as 367GB of free space.I restarted an am ready for the next step!
Jim

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Now right click that Free Space and delete that, it should then be unallocated space that the C: partition can be extended into; be sure to keep me informed.

 

[provlima]

It doesn't give me the option..the only option not greyed out is New Simple Volume????????

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

OK I don't get why it can't be deleted but we'll go another way, we're very close.


First do a quick (create simple volume) format to the Free Space so it will have a drive letter again and post back.

 

[provlima]

created new volume

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

OK now we have to use a free 3rd party software, download and then install this from the link below.

Partition Wizard Free Home Edition

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[provlima]

I downloaded it and installed!

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Now open the program and right click the new drive you just created and click delete, then I think it's at the top left now click apply then yes to any conformation dialog boxes, it'll only take seconds.


be sure not to do the G: where all the data you just moved that's why the "new" drive needed a letter so you could tell them apart without issue.

 

[provlima]

I deleted and it became unallocated space

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I deleted and it became unallocated space

Well done, now you can extend C: into that space, use Windows 7 disk management for that.


one thing though, be sure to add enough so you don't have to go through all this again when you run out of room on C: again!

 

[provlima]

extend volume command is grayed out!!??
what luck

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

In an elevated command window type diskpart <enter> then list volume and post a snip here.

 

[provlima]

diskpart results

hope this helps

Jim

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I see why it won't extend the C:, the F: is still there.


Type/paste these one at a time in that same command window followed by <enter>

select volume 4 you should get "volume 4 selected"

delete volume override confirmation

select volume 3 confirmation

extend size=98300 confirmation

exit twice to close the command window

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I'm off for the night but please post back with the results as soon as you know.

 

[provlima]

the command lines didnt work..what did I do wrong?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

You didn't type diskpart first then run the rest of the commands.


open the command window ...


diskpart

select volume 4

 

[provlima]

result of diskpart commands

here are the results of the four entries

have a good night and thanks for all your help today

Jim