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Extending hard drive partition ...
Acer aspire 5315 .... vista basic ..2gb
My laptop has a fairly small hard drive 80gb .. it has 2 partitions.. (c- d) the c drive is 90% full, and the d drive is 10% full. The laptop is used for browsing only... I don't store photos or music on it.
Having looked at disk management, I can see that it is possible to shrink the d drive.
I have done this and created 16gb of unused space.
But when I try to extend the c drive ( and claim this free space for the c drive), this option appears in the drop down menu in disk management, but it is not possible to right click and select it ... so how can I extend the c drive using the space I have created by shrinking the D drive.?
Hope this makes sense ..
My laptop has a fairly small hard drive 80gb .. it has 2 partitions.. (c- d) the c drive is 90% full, and the d drive is 10% full. The laptop is used for browsing only... I don't store photos or music on it.
Having looked at disk management, I can see that it is possible to shrink the d drive.
I have done this and created 16gb of unused space.
But when I try to extend the c drive ( and claim this free space for the c drive), this option appears in the drop down menu in disk management, but it is not possible to right click and select it ... so how can I extend the c drive using the space I have created by shrinking the D drive.?
Hope this makes sense ..
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You need to download it, use CD burning software that supports ISO burning to create a bootable CD, boot the computer from the CD and then change the partition sizes.
WARNING....Backup all your important files before playing with partitions!
You need to download it, use CD burning software that supports ISO burning to create a bootable CD, boot the computer from the CD and then change the partition sizes.
WARNING....Backup all your important files before playing with partitions!
Instead of playing around with your partitions (which could cause you to lose all your data) why not just start using your D drive.
It is very easy to store music, movies, photgraphs on D instead of,
If you have a lot of these on C just move them to D and free up sapce on C.
Also good idea to get an external hard drive.
It is very easy to store music, movies, photgraphs on D instead of,
If you have a lot of these on C just move them to D and free up sapce on C.
Also good idea to get an external hard drive.
If you really want to fool around with partitions there is no better set of tools than those from Acronis.
But as VHG suggested, start using the D partition. It is meant to keep the data separate from the operating system and there are good reasons to do it. Unfortunately most computers set up with the data partition don't come with the Documents and Settings folder moved to D:
But as VHG suggested, start using the D partition. It is meant to keep the data separate from the operating system and there are good reasons to do it. Unfortunately most computers set up with the data partition don't come with the Documents and Settings folder moved to D:
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