Computer Question - Disk partitioning

[billofrights]

Do you ask for gun advice from a computer forum? If not, then I'd suggest asking for computer advice from a computer forum rather than from a gun forum.

Because some of us "gun guys" actually work in IT? Do you only have a singular interest? We wouldn't have a tech & internet forum if there wasn't any interest in it, don't be obtuse. There's also Car Guys, HVAC Guys, Woodworking Guys, etc.

[Deedle]

Do you ask for gun advice from a computer forum? If not, then I'd suggest asking for computer advice from a computer forum rather than from a gun forum.

The name of the section is "Technology and Internet" - if that's hard to grasp you're in the wrong place.

[Dragunov]

How do I expand the C Drive partition (boot 'disk') from its current 50GB to 150GB (using Disk Management isn't working).

Background: I installed a new 2 TB internal drive and partitioned it (C Drive w/ Window 10 at 50GB and D drive has the balance for storage....as seen below). When I installed Windows 10, it only took up about 22GB of the 48GB available on the C Drive. Now, w/ various other programs installed, I have only 3GB remaining on the C Drive (I have nothing stored on the C Drive other than various program installation files/folders).

Of the tutorials I've read/seen via Google & YouTube, it seems the reason why I can't expand the C Drive partition (to 150GB) is the way it is laid out (in the picture below). If the C drive came before the D Drive, I don't think I would have a problem (based on various YouTube tutorials). I haven't found a way for these two to 'switch' positions (if they can be switched).

Any suggestions on how to expand the C Drive? FWIW, this video is an example of most I've found on expanding a partition - https://youtu.be/tJiakVgAtn4

Thanks.
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Go into disk mgmt, RC on the "D" partition, then DELETE VOLUME.

That partition will now be "unallocated". You will lose EVERYTHING on that partition!

Click on the "C" partition, and EXPAND VOLUME. Accept defaults, click ok... It will expand C to include the entire drive.

If you want to image, or clone your drive, use Macrium Reflect. A two-click operation to do either. Don't mess with Acronis, or Ghost. Macrium FREE is much better.

Mini Tool Partition Wizard, is another free, WELL behaved, easy tool for partitioning your drives.

You're welcome.

[Ivan275]

Windows will not let you do it, pick a free program from here https://www.lifewire.com/free-disk-p...-tools-2624950 and use it to manage partition size. If you want to do it in windows you would need to back up your Disk0 C and D, delete both partitions, possibly merge them, then split into sizes you want, format them and then restore the partitions from the backups back to C and D. Use one of the free programs windows does not make it easy.

I see no reason it would matter If the C drive came before the D Drive You are expanding one and shrinking another, does not matter which comes first.

[Cokebottle]

This is why you don't partition physical drives without a very compelling reason - not since the 1980s man.

Ditto.

Used to be a problem with the old 8 bit and 16 bit systems running FAT. Large partitions created extremely large blocks, resulting in a small 1k file taking up 32k of storage.
No longer an issue with NTFS, particularly with the size of modern drives and files.

The only reason to partition a physical disk is for dual-boot capability between Windows and Linux or whatever else you want to play with.

[twidget1995]

If I were going to start from scratch and wanted to separate programs and storage:

I'd buy a 500G SSD for programs and a separate multi-terabyte drive for storage. You won't believe how fast windows and other programs will work from a SSD.

I have a 6 year old i7 laptop with a 250G SSD that boots windows 10 from off in about 15 seconds.

[Deedle]

SATA is so 2010 - the hot ticket now is NVMe.

[the86d]

If I were going to start from scratch and wanted to separate programs and storage:

I'd buy a 500G SSD for programs and a separate multi-terabyte drive for storage. You won't believe how fast windows and other programs will work from a SSD.

I have a 6 year old i7 laptop with a 250G SSD that boots windows 10 from off in about 15 seconds.

^What 1995 said...^
Yup, 23 seconds to login screen on this BUOR here SATA3 card added w/ an SSD. The latest BIOS update available for my board is dated with the year 2010, and the SSD upgrade made it last this long.

SSDs make all the difference, use an SSD. I only use platter drives for (long term) archival these days. It is pointless to run anything off of a platter drive with the lag involved. Some of the first SSDs were complete crap, mainly due to firmware, the Micron/Crucial M4 5000 hour bug comes to mind, and the drive would just disappear, but they have come a long way and I wouldn't go back. Sustained transfer rates are AWESOME, just never defrag them.

Night and day difference.