Creating/resizing partitions

Brumboy · 24 Apr 2011 at 16:14

I have a 2TB HDD which is split into a 200GB partition for games & programs and a 1.6TB partition for music/films/tv shows.

However I only have 40GB left on the first partition for games and programs so I was wondering if I could extend that partition by another 200GB so it will be 400GB in total?

Is it possible to do this? if so can someone explain how please!

Brumboy · 24 Apr 2011 at 16:33

Nevermind I've found out how to do it. This can be closed sorry.

Brumboy · 24 Apr 2011 at 16:46

Yeah good idea.

I downloaded Easeus Partition Master Home Edition and read their guide, it's pretty simple to do. You literally just resize the bigger partition on the scale to whatever size you want (I resized my 1.6TB partition to 1.4TB leaving me 200GB free). I then dragged the 200GB unallocated space next to the C Drive and resized it until the 200GB space disappeared. Very simple and easy to do.

Brumboy · 24 Apr 2011 at 17:12

cokecan72 said:
Another option would be to right click my computer, select manage, then in the snap-in window that opens select disk management from the tree structure. Here you can shrink, re-size and just generally manage your partitions.

It might not be as powerful as some other 3rd party apps such as the Easeus Partition Master but it certainly does the job when I need it

I tried doing that a few times earlier but I couldn't extend my C Drive, apparentely it's not possible for some reason after googling the problem.