Ho to extend my C drive from same "Physical" drive?

Antx777 · 31 Oct 2014 at 13:29

Hello,

Got a Samsung laptop 700G7a (gaming) , and I have plenty of storage, but in the wrong parts!.

Its a while since I had it now (3 years) but I have two physical drives, 750 gigs each. On initial set up, I set it up have C, D, and E drive. Now my C drive is about 46 gigs big (or small) and with iTunes backups etc it shrinks to 20gigs. I would like to know how to extend or make my C drive bigger. Been in disk manager (windows 7) and the extend is greyed out, and on D, and E drives too.

Got partition master home edition, but cant seem to find a way to extend the C. Done an image back up from win 7 back up and restore so I'm ok if I go wrong, as tried to merge c to d but lost lots of files and things wouldn't work etc. (in other words, id like my C and D drive as one now, but games/Software (lots of them) get lost in the process and lots of other stuff too)

hard drive pic link below as image too large.

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Clav · 31 Oct 2014 at 13:34

From that picture you have a C drive which is 268GB (not 46GB???) a D drive which is 405GB and an E drive which is 698GB. A 268GB C drive seems to be plenty large enough to me, can't you just reinstall your games and/or apps to the E drive? OR move your pictures / videos there?

Armageus · 31 Oct 2014 at 13:38

Antx777 said:
Its a while since I had it now (3 years) but I have two physical drives, 750 gigs each. On initial set up, I set it up have C, D, and E drive. Now my C drive is about 46 gigs big (or small) and with iTunes backups etc it shrinks to 20gigs. I would like to know how to extend or make my C drive bigger. Been in disk manager (windows 7) and the extend is greyed out, and on D, and E drives too.

In order to use Windows' Disk Manager Extend, you would need to remove or shrink a partition to create some unused space, this is then available to extend into.

you can't merge the 2 750gig drives, best you could do would be to backup the files on "D" and then delete the "D" partition. You can then extend the C partition to fill the remaining space - this will give you around 650Gb on C (hidden space could be things like recovery partition), E will remain at 700Gb.

** Make sure you have a backup first **

Antx777 · 31 Oct 2014 at 14:14

Thanks for the replies. both option seem good actually. Shrinking D Drive doesn't give me the option to "extend" C drive (C drive but cant. Ill look at the other options too re: back up of D.

Thanks.

Tony

Clav · 31 Oct 2014 at 14:28

Antx777 said:
Thanks for the replies. both option seem good actually. Shrinking D Drive doesn't give me the option to "extend" C drive (C drive but cant. Ill look at the other options too re: back up of D.

Thanks.

Tony

To extend a partition you need to have free space at the end of it, so to the right of it in the disk management window. You would need a 3rd party tool to reduce the size of D, then move the whole partition to the end of the disk, then extend C drive into the free space which is now in the middle of the disk.

But really I think just changing the way you use the space would be more beneficial