Richard Christensen
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logical drive problem...partition size is awkward?
One of the computers I am using has a 300 GB hard drive. The C drive is approximately 60 GB (almost full) and the D drive (a partition/logical drive) is approximately 230 GB. This D drive is empty. I would like to change the configuration to one larger C drive in order to allow the computer to work more efficiently. The operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium. What is the best way to go about doing this?
thanks,
capreol
thanks,
capreol
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having C nearly full leads me to this question : what is taking the space?
anything you can uninstall, or move to the D: drive?
how much is available on D?
anything you can uninstall, or move to the D: drive?
how much is available on D?
Right click on My Computer - Manage - Disk Management.
There you can delete D: drive and then right click on C: - extend.
Allocate to it 50-80GB space (in MB it will be 85000MB approximately).
Apply changes and wait till it finished. Now your C: drive is over 100GB.
Recreate D: drive of the rest of the space and store there your data files only.
There you can delete D: drive and then right click on C: - extend.
Allocate to it 50-80GB space (in MB it will be 85000MB approximately).
Apply changes and wait till it finished. Now your C: drive is over 100GB.
Recreate D: drive of the rest of the space and store there your data files only.
ASKER
Good answers and good advice from all three experts. Partition resizing has always been a mystery to me.
thanks,
capreol
thanks,
capreol
ASKER
re-open the question and I will re-allocate the points. The guy has made a good point.
ASKER
thermoduric,
I thought you were going to re-open the question to allow me to re-allocate the points. Seth Simmons has made a very good point. He should be awarded points for his answer. My mistake.
Please advise.
capreol
I thought you were going to re-open the question to allow me to re-allocate the points. Seth Simmons has made a very good point. He should be awarded points for his answer. My mistake.
Please advise.
capreol
capreol - did you find out yet what is taking up the space?
ASKER
okay thermoduric...how do I reallocate the points??? this is a hair on the frustrating side to say the least.
capreol
capreol
Lol, forgive me but this is funny. Good luck!
ASKER
Thank you thermoduric. I have reallocated the points as I believe they should be allocated. I resized the partitions today with the tools built in to Windows 7 and all went well.
capreol
capreol
I agree, I would never want one partition for O.S and data. It's much easier to re-image when need to and cleaner. It's good practice.