Partition issues

Community
1

I want to extend system partition from D drive (logical drive) without data loss; partition softwares including minitool partition wizard (which is terminating midway), EaseUs (inefficient apk) are not helping… while diskmgmt.msc does not show extend; apk recommendation accepted too…

2

Could you post a screenshot of disk management so we can see what space is available, etc

3

@SpacePhoenix

2048×1536 590 KB

4

Do you mean extend C drive taking from D drive?

How much? The strategi for a safe resizing also depends of how much room is left for data on the D drive.

5

Is the computer a desktop or a laptop? If it’s a desktop you might want to consider getting a second hard drive onto which you could move the contents of the D drive. The existing one would be the primary drive, with the new drive being a secondary drive

6

Extend system partition (primary drive C) taking from drive D. The space left on D is 149GB.

7

It’s a desktop and moving files to another drive is what I wanted to bypass.

8

EaseUS should work. I’ve used it a lot. That’s typically how I can partition my HD to run multi-boot. And if EaseUS didn’t work, I would never have

9

I suggest you don’t move all avaiable space on D to C, that could cause the partitioning software (EaseUS) to choke, the operation must have room to temporarly store chunks of duplicated data for moving.

Another approach could be to take @SpacePhoenix tip and

  1. copy all data on the D drive to a second harddrive for backup and then:
  2. remove the D partition,
  3. extend the C partition with say 140GB*,
  4. create the D to take what room is left,
  5. copy the D backup back to the now smaller D drive.
  6. check D for errors, and if none found you can remove the backup and
  7. the second harddrive.

Good luck, and have no power outage now.

*) If you only move say 100GB, you could divide the D drive to a D and E, and copy all D data to E, then repeat from 2) above.

Edit)
If you go for the 100GB option. Be sure to defragment the D drive for fast file access first, i.e. collect all data in the front space of the drive.

10

This topic was automatically closed 91 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.