Question hard disk drive extend

[hardcore_gamer29]

I tried while installing windows but option was greyed out. I had c drive of 145 gb since long and 930gb drive for games. But now i wanted to extend c drive by 50gb more and shrink 930 gb by 50gb. But in windows settings as well option is greyed out. Any way out?

 

[mikeymikec]

I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but I think you're saying that you have more space on the second drive and you would like to lend that space to the first drive?

If so, you can set a folder on C drive to redirect any requests to a location on D drive. for example:

C:\Games points to D:\Whatever\Games
Any programs requesting information from say C:\Games\Quake will think that's where they're looking but are actually looking in D:\Whatever\Games\Quake.

I used to use a sysinternals command line program called 'junction', and the command was:

JUNCTION -S C:\Games D:\Whatever\Games

There are newer techniques as Windows introduced features like symlinking but I'm a creature of habit and since NTFS junctions have almost invariably worked for me, I stick with them. Ah yes, that's a point, this folder redirection feature needs a NTFS filesystem on the source location at the very least.

 

[bba-tcg]

I tried while installing windows but option was greyed out. I had c drive of 145 gb since long and 930gb drive for games. But now i wanted to extend c drive by 50gb more and shrink 930 gb by 50gb. But in windows settings as well option is greyed out. Any way out?

You can only extend a drive if there is unallocated space after it. Shrinking a drive unallocates space at the end of it. What it sounds like you're describing is simply not possible. A spin on what mikeymikec describes is to mount the second drive in an empty folder on drive c:, resulting in pretty much the same thing. I have an SSD that is mounted in c:\games. Any time that I install a game (or really any other program, for that matter), it's actually being installed on the 2nd SSD. Doing this, I don't even have to deal with a 2nd drive letter, just drive c:.

 

[Steltek]

I tried while installing windows but option was greyed out. I had c drive of 145 gb since long and 930gb drive for games. But now i wanted to extend c drive by 50gb more and shrink 930 gb by 50gb. But in windows settings as well option is greyed out. Any way out?

I agree with @mikeymikec as to the confusion in your post.

Do you have a single physical drive, partitioned into two logical drives (i.e. a C: boot partition and a separate second separate partition for games data), or do you have two separate drives?

My gut feeling is that you have one drive and that you want to split and resize existing partitions, but we need to be sure as the answer depends entirely upon your actual hardware configuration. You can't do this in Windows, but there is 3rd party software like DiskGenius that can do it outside Windows using a bootable WinPE environment (though, if you don't really know what you are doing, you can easily bork your entire install). Backups are a MUST before trying something like that.

If you have one physical drive, are you using a Windows swap file? As a mitigation, you can move the swap file to the other partition to get back that space. You can also delete old, unneeded restore points if you have any to recover space. And, empty your trash if you haven't done it recently.....