Creating/resizing partitions

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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!
 
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.
 
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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 :)
 
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 :)
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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.
 
The native windows method is flawed, because it can't move data already written to the disk. So, when you try to resize the partition, it usually fails because the swap file or other file occupies part of the space you need.

3rd party tools like easeus are capable of moving data around more flexibly, so are much better for this.
 
toon_mad said:
I think you can only extend a partition if it has free space to the right (or was it left?) :confused:
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That's true, with the windows method. But note that the data will be spread across the disk, with free space between them. All 3rd party tools can move your data into the free space areas, freeing up space at the right (or left), so you can create partitions.

Example: say you have a 750GB drive, with 100GB data on it. It's very likely that 100GB isn't in a single block, but is in smaller chunks scattered all along the drive. If you try to shrink that partition in windows, you might find you can't shrink it further than 600GB (or any other random size), because 1kb of data is written on the drive at the 600gb point.

3rd party tools can collect all the data scattered across the drive, and move it together so it is in one chunk (in this example, a 100GB chunk). This allows you to take advantage of the full amount of free space on your drive, say by shrinking that example partition all the way down to 100GB (though it would be wise to make it a bit bigger to allow for growth, of course).
 
jbloggs said:
Another good bit of free software that contains gParted (partitioning tool) is PartedMagic
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bledd. said:
This is how I'd do it

I don't like doing partition changes on live systems, ie within Windows


Always backup before making any changes, just in case
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gParted can make changes to system partitions which Windows MMC can't. It really is very easy to mess up your partition table, so like Bledd said, ALWAYS have a good backup before you make any changes.
 
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