I'm on a quest!

[ZoNtO]

Should be simple, but I thought I would run it by the forum experts before I try anything. Here's the situation:

I have a 500GB Western Digital Drive and I formatted it to have 2 partitions, the C:\ drive is 50GB and the D:\ drive is 415 GB. I would like to make the C drive bigger now to have more room for programs and the like, but the windows disk management won't let me extend C: because D: is allocated right after it.

Do I need to get something like Partition Magic?

 

[iskim86]

partition magic should do the trick

i use it everytime I want to resize partitions

there are alternatives to it (and free ones too) so you should do a little research to see what suits you. but overall, they all do the same thing (partitionplay) and shouldn't matter.

 

[postmortemIA]

partition magic and vista NTFS aren't friends... better try latest bootable CD of gparted

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: ZoNtO
Should be simple, but I thought I would run it by the forum experts before I try anything. Here's the situation:

I have a 500GB Western Digital Drive and I formatted it to have 2 partitions, the C:\ drive is 50GB and the D:\ drive is 415 GB. I would like to make the C drive bigger now to have more room for programs and the like, but the windows disk management won't let me extend C: because D: is allocated right after it.

Do I need to get something like Partition Magic?

Can you shrink D: then enlarge C:?

 

[MustISO]

If there's nothing on D: just delete it and make C: larger from the unallocated space.

 

[ZoNtO]

If I shrink D, then it unallocates space right after it, so C isn't able to "extend" onto it. There is data on D (lossless and lossy music backups, downloads, etc...)

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: ZoNtO
If I shrink D, then it unallocates space right after it, so C isn't able to "extend" onto it. There is data on D (lossless and lossy music backups, downloads, etc...)

can't do that, you can only shrink form the end, not form the beginning of partition.