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C drive full, but D is empty, how to extend?

Aug 11, 2014 7:29AM PDT

Hi, My laptop's C: drive is almost full, but D: drive is 30% empty. I know I can extend it with a tool like partition manager.

The thing is I don't want to loose any data on C drive, it is OK to loose data on D.

Should I take a backup with http://clonezilla.org/ first?

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A different topic for an other time
Aug 13, 2014 11:23AM PDT

One day, I will start a discussion about Windows 8's pro's and con's compared to previous versions of the Windows Operating System and will try to expand my knowledge of Windows 8 with and without modifications and programs installed to the OS.

Truthfully, I am not experienced with Windows 8 and, though it may not be totally different, it's still an Australian dialect to an American dialect to me. Things are different, but reasonably understandable... sometimes. This is a reflection of me and I hope I show very little bias towards it. Basically, I do not understand it well and eventually I will, but I still can not live without windows 7's start menu. It holds anything I'd ever need, unlike a tile panel start page that has to be navigated for the correct program. I understand your Classic Shell addon and will investigate it the day that I decide to test Windows 8.

Thank you for your input as I will look into the Classic Shell later on, instead of countless hours on Google looking for the best shell to "live in".

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Use an Ubuntu Installation LiveCD
Aug 13, 2014 11:13AM PDT

The installation disk of Ubuntu includes gParted by default. I recommend you use that.

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We only lose what we don't backup.
Aug 13, 2014 5:53AM PDT

If any error occurs, when using any of the well known procedures you would, if you didn't have backups learn the lesson the hard way.

While I think you could use GPARTED the trouble is that reading your posts I get the feeling that you are not ready to do this. That is, your disaster recovery plan is to have no disasters.
Bob

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c issue
Aug 19, 2014 6:46PM PDT

copy the data to external hard drive then install a new windows with a new partition remain c free with a low disk space and give 80% storage to d after that copy data to d drive.