Partition question

julianhj

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I'm not sure if this should be here or in software, so please bear with me!

My current main drive is a 500GB Samsung F3. I installed it about six months ago and partitioned 50GB as my C: system drive. This has now almost filled up (3GB spare). The remaining 416GB is my D: drive for docs/images/music etc. This is also now just about full.

Is there a simple way of making the entire 500GB a single partition (after transferring the contents of D: to a new 1TB disc) or will I have to do a format/fresh install?

Apologies if this seems an almost laughably simple issue, but I don't have a clue.

Thanks!
 
You'd need to use something like Partition Magic. There is probably an open source piece of software that'll do the same thing, but names escape me at the moment.

Actually thinking about it, you might be able to do this using Windows Disk Management (right click on Computer, select manage and then select Disk Management). It allows you delete partitions and to resize the first partition on a disk quite easily.
 
What O/S are you using? its just that you may be able to free up some of the 50GB, vista doesn't delete the backups it makes during service pack installations (I don't know about 7) this has to be done manually via a command line tool. Also have you moved the page file to the other partition?, disabled system restore?, set the recycle bin to delete immediately.

You can also right click on my documents and change the path to a documents folder on the second partition and windows will move the contents of my docs there and consider it the my documents folder from now on. I know you want to alter the sizes but im just a bit confused how you have filled 50GB with just O/S+apps lol.
 
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