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Shrinking/Extending Partitions

  • 19-08-2010 10:27AM
    #1
    kah22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭


    My new laptop runs Windows 7 Home Premium. It has a 500 GB Hard Drive divided as follows:
    D: Capacity 397.30 GB
    C: Capacity 58.59 GB
    Recovery: Capacity 9.77

    I want to extend the C: Drive to roughly 100 GB.

    I know I can shrink the D: drive pretty simply: open disk management - select D drive - Right Click - Shrink Volume and enter 40000. As I understand it this will shrink the volume on the D drive by 40 GB.

    I'm not to sure though where that 40 GB will end up. Will it go straight to the C: drive, or will I have to do something else after I shrink the D drive, will I, for example, have to go to the C: drive and do an expand by 40 GB.

    Would appreciate comments from members who have used this facility and how easy it is. As you can see I'm a wee bit nervous.

    Is it simply a matter of going to D: drive and shrinking, seems to simple :)

    Kevin



    Many thanks

    Kevin


Comments

  • #2
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Just shrink the D partition and expand the C one. It is simple and from the sounds of it you'll figure out what you're doing straight away.

    Note that you have a recovery partition (to allow the OS to be restored to the same as when it was new). Changing partition sizes might mess that function up - it's hard to say. Sometimes the restore function is expecting the C partition to be an exact particular size and if it isn't, it will refuse to work.


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