Trying to extend hard drive partition

breaking_free

Hi all.

I created a new D drive on my laptop. There was only a piddly amount of space available so I used the wisdom of the Internet to temporarily reduce the size of my page file, then defrag and disk cleanup to try and free up more space. Nothing worked (I've set my page file back to the recommended amount now)

As you can see my D drive has only 3.16 GB of storage space. Can anyone tell me with spoon feeding instructions what I might do to pinch some space off the C drive or merge one of the Disk 0 drives into my D drive thanks. 

I'm not particularly tech savvy, hence my request for step-by-step spoon feeding instructions!

debitcardmayhem

Why do you need a D drive?

km1500

you need to first shrink c: and then extend d: into the resulting unallocated space.

C: should about 64gb (not less if running windows 11)

download 'free minitool partition manager'

km1500

debitcardmayhem said:

Why do you need a D drive?

to have the OS on C: and data on

debitcardmayhem

km1500 said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Why do you need a D drive?

to have the OS on C: and data on

Huh it’s still the same disk (physical) 😳

Oh and it’s bitlockered so it will be slow to shrink

wongataa

km1500 said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Why do you need a D drive?

to have the OS on C: and data on

It's not worth it if both 'drives' are on the same physical disk.  If the disk dies you lose both so no difference in what is lost if you hadn't added the 'drive'.  It is best to use another physical disk for another drive and use all the available space for the partition.  That way you aren't going to hit space limitations caused by not having the whole disk available for storage.

Also, by reducing the size of 'C' to add another partition you could hit space limits on 'C' that you wouldn't have if you didn't add a partition.

If you can't fit another disk in your computer and need more storage space get a larger disk and transfer everything over to the larger drive and replace the smaller drive with the larger one.

km1500

the reason for having data on (even if it is the same physical.disk) is if you have to wipe and re-install the OS you don't wipe your data too.

Also if all data is on the it is easy to back.it up.

Also, if you image your C drive as a backup you don't waste space imaging all your data at the same time

Neil_Jones

km1500 said:

the reason for having data on (even if it is the same physical.disk) is if you have to wipe and re-install the OS you don't wipe your data too.

Also if all data is on the it is easy to back.it up.

Also, if you image your C drive as a backup you don't waste space imaging all your data at the same time

It must be remembered that OEM Windows is intended to be installed on a blank hard drive.  So if you're not watching what you're doing the whole lot can go by bye bye and you may not even be aware of it.

Note  that Windows Reset has an option to trash the lot as well, if you're not careful, though it should only touch the one partition.