Easiest way to expand C: drive?

Stephen Garner · 19 Oct 2020 at 19:08

Long story short, my M2's are a few years old my fantastic idea to partition C: to 110GB was one of my lesser ideas i've made.

The M2 itself has free space i can repurpose from other volumes, however, looking for some best of breed free software to do this.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

chroniclard · 19 Oct 2020 at 19:10

Cant you do this in windows now?

Stephen Garner · 19 Oct 2020 at 19:12

chroniclard said:
Cant you do this in windows now?

C drive cannot be expanded or shrunk...apparently :/

Disco_P · 20 Oct 2020 at 06:40

I think I have used EaseUS partition manager to do this in the past. After applying the partition size change to c: it'll reboot and do it early in the boot cycle.

Looked like magic but it worked.

Stephen Garner · 20 Oct 2020 at 10:00

I solved this by using the free version of AOMEI partition manager.
Worked well

Armageus · 20 Oct 2020 at 10:02

chroniclard said:
Cant you do this in windows now?

You can, but sometimes recovery partitions and the like can stop this from working

Stephen Garner · 20 Oct 2020 at 10:05

chroniclard said:
Cant you do this in windows now?

Looking into this further, i believe the only way this can be done is if the unallocated space is next to the C: drive. My unallocated was not - which was annoying.

andy_mk3 · 20 Oct 2020 at 10:06

Stephen Garner said:
Looking into this further, i believe the only way this can be done is if the unallocated space is next to the C: drive. My unallocated was not - which was annoying.

That's correct, and highly annoying at times. I always keep hirens boot cd on a memory stick for times like that.

chroniclard · 20 Oct 2020 at 10:12

Ah, been a long time since I had to partition things.

I used to use partition magic, not sure its still around.

EsaT · 20 Oct 2020 at 15:21

Armageus said:
You can, but sometimes recovery partitions and the like can stop this from working

For some inxecusable reason as default Microsoft adds Recovery partition after Windows partition:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions
So that blocks extending Windows partition even if drive has empty space, because being the **** ups they are, Microsoft don't know how to make tool would move that partition.
(or just create it to end of drive in the first place)