Shrinking/Extending Partitions

kah22

My new computer runs Windows 7 Home Premium. It has a 500 GB Hard Drive divided as follows:

Capacity 397.30 GB
C: Capacity 58.59 GB
Recovery: Capacity 9.77

I want to extend the C: Drive to roughly 100 GB.

I know I can shrink the drive pretty simply: open disk management - select D drive - Right Click - Shrink Volume and enter 40000. As I understand it this will shrink the volume on the D drive by 40 GB.

I'm not to sure though where that 40 GB will end up. Will it go straight to the C: drive, or will I have to do something else after I shrink the D drive. (I take it that when we are talking about shrinking the volume we are talking about shrinking the size of that section of the Hard Drive? Just want to be sure)

Many thanks

Kevin

John_Gray

Personally I would use the free Easeus Partition Manager. I've used it on three XP PCs recently, entirely successfully.

Hammyman

John_Gray wrote: »

Personally I would use the free Easeus Partition Manager. I've used it on three XP PCs recently, entirely successfully.

Why? Windows Vista and Windows 7 have built in tools.

To the OP, you've found where to do it. You need to first reduce D by 40GB as you've found out how to do. You will then be left with a gap of unused space. From there, click on the C drive and this time choose "Expand" and do the same.

John_Gray

Hammyman wrote: »

Why? Windows Vista and Windows 7 have built in tools.

Why? Because I have found that the product works well and reliably. Not a good enough reason for you?!

kah22

Hammyman wrote: »

Why? Windows Vista and Windows 7 have built in tools.
You need to first reduce D by 40GB as you've found out how to do. You will then be left with a gap of unused space. From there, click on the C drive and this time choose "Expand" and do the same.

That simple ?

fwor

kah22 wrote: »

That simple ?

I've never used the Win7 disk management, but in your position I'd be prepared for it not to be that simple.

There's a good chance that the C: is a primary partition, and that the and recovery partitions are logical ones, so there may be a bit more messing about than just shrink and grow. It may simply be another step to shrink the partition, then shrink the extended partition which holds the logical ones and then finally growing the C: partition.

Hammyman

kah22 wrote: »

That simple ?

Yes, it is that simple.

DCFC79

I recently had a hard drive with a partition on it and 1 half had windows 7 on and the other was unused and wasnt formatted so i used the windows 7 tool to adjust the partition or to remove it, easy to use