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Disk Space Management

Feb 10, 2015 8:56PM PST

Hi, my question could be an old one but I cannot find the answers so I am requesting for your helps.

My notebook computer (OS Windows 7) has SSD drive I did partition C: and D: long time ago. Now the drive C: is got red means free space is so little and drive D: is still has a lot of free space.

To add some free space from drive D: to C: I used disk management and shrunk the drive D: and got another partition drive F: with free space 10 GB it is located to the right sight of the D: in Disk management window. I can re-merge this 10GB to D: but cannot merge to drive C: . There is one possibility I found on Google is back up the drive D: and delete the volume and re-partition or use a software such as Partition Magic. So my question is how can I merge this 10 GB( disk space from drive DHappy to C without using a third party software and without deleting drive D:?

Regards,
Wildbird

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Feb 10, 2015 9:02PM PST

Partitions must be consecutive. So you need to move D to the end of the disk first. That can't be done by Windows Disk Management, alas. There are free partition managers like GPARTED or the home edition from Aomei, and I see no reason to not use it. But just for safety, make a backup of all contents to another device first.

Kees

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Feb 10, 2015 10:04PM PST

Hi Kees_B, thank you for the reply "That can't be done by Windows Disk Management".

I do not like to installed a lot of software that I use not often so I was thinking to use the Windows Disk Management. I took your tip to use third party software, I installed Acronis Disk Director Suite and I increased the disk space. Thank you again.

Regards,
Wildbird

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Disk Management
Feb 12, 2015 7:59AM PST

Wildbird,

Windows Disk management should be able to handle this no problem. I just did it on my system.

Basically you need to go to Disk Management and delete the F: drive partition you create.

One question - is there files on the D: drive partition already, if so try to move them over to C: drive first or to a external hard drive or usb key.

Next delete the D: partition.

Next highlight the C: drive and right mouse click and select Extend the volume.

This should allow for you to merge all the free space from the deleted partitions to the C: drive.

Hope this helps.

GuruX

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Thank you
Feb 18, 2015 2:54AM PST

I am sorry for the let reply. Thank you for the tip.

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Disk Space Management
Feb 12, 2015 12:00PM PST

your partition must be adjacent, you allocate 10gb from d, the unallocated should be behind c drive, then you can use disk management do extend your c drive. Before do partition, you'd better backup important data. As for merge partition, the best way is to choose a third software, like Kees_B referred, aomei partition assistant standard, free partition manager, to achieve your aim.

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Thanks
Feb 18, 2015 2:55AM PST

I am sorry for the let reply. Thank you for the tip.