C Drive full...cannot expand it

garroff

My c drive is full and I have removed as many programmes as possible to free up space.
I have 60Gb spare on my FDrive.
I have tried various programmes (i.e Easeus etc) to transfer space from F drive to Cdrive to no avail.
Can anyone tell me how to expand the C Drive,
Disk management does not seem to work in this case.
Many thanks.

Twoandahalfmen

Buy an external Hardrive roughly €70 for 750GB.
And transfer files to it.

looking_around

is the F drive a partition or an external drive?

If it's a partition, What OS are you running?

If it's a separate HDD, you can't "add it" to the C drive.
However, you could try uninstalling programs like Skype/Office/Other etc and re-installing them to the F drive.

garroff

F drive is a partition and using Vista

gctest50

http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

You should be able to adjust the partition with that

- backup your data first
- read instructions


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garroff

Many Thanks gctest50.
I'll give it a try.

garroff

Had a look at this.
This is one of the options I tried yesterday without success.
It only seem to work if both c and F are in line.
When I apply it to my C drive it cannot expand it because C has nowhere to go.

mp22

Shrink the F drive first then expand the c drive with the space freed up.It will show up as unallocated space in disk management.

garroff

mp22....how sure are you that this will work?

looking_around

I find that's the way it works, you have to shrink/"delete" F so that the space (or some of the space) isn't being used at all, in anyway... you should then be able to add that to the C drive.

Dravokivich

looking_around wrote: »

I find that's the way it works, you have to shrink/"delete" F so that the space (or some of the space) isn't being used at all, in anyway... you should then be able to add that to the C drive.

Only if C and F are on the same HDD.

viota

if 'f' is a faux drive use partition magic to delete the faux drive and allocate the space to c drive.I would advise to do a defrag of hdd afterwards.

riclad

Switch off system restore to save space,
you should be able to drag and drop data files,music ,video ,photos , to partition f.
uninstall programs that you are not using .
you should always leave 4gig free on partition c.
c is full = slow er windows os,
os needs space for temporary files.

garroff

garroff

See photo.
Any suggestions?

looking_around

like viota said if harddrive F, is a physical separate harddrive ....you can't join it to C.. and is it?

What you could do is reinstall your OS on to the larger Harddrive.

Or as I suggested before, uninstall most of your programs and re-install them to F.
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if it is partioned, you should be able to go to the C drive and choose "expand" to the amount of unallocated space.

garroff

How do I check if C and F are one or separate Hard drives?

looking_around

open your pc.. and see if there's one or two HDD's.

Seriously mate, you might want to consider taking it to a shop to sort out. You can agree on a price before hand and many are fair with the cost.. and you'd save yourself alot of hassle

garroff

I think you could be right.
Many thanks

viota

garroff wrote: »

See photo.
Any suggestions?

you need to merge the 2 drives together.the c drive should be the primary one

garroff

Thanks again

Allyall

Create a folder on the F drive and call it anything e.g. "C_BACKUP"

and either
1. Download DriveImageXML and backup C to the folder.

When the backup is complete, go to drive C and delete a couple of GB's of data.

For example, start with the less important stuff, Movies, music etc..

or

2. Use unstoppable copier to COPY "Your Documents" to "F:\C_BACKUP" and when it is complete, delete everything inside your documents folder on C.

That is just two suggestions, but an external hard drive is a good idea when messing around with stuff like that.
There was a 750GB portable drive in Harvey Normans for €49 last week.

garroff

thanks Allyall

MarkR

Have you tried moving large files (movies / mp3's) from the c drive to the d drive? You can change the location of your documents / music / video folders from c to d.

davmigil

garroff wrote: »

How do I check if C and F are one or separate Hard drives?

From the screen shot you have shown they are two separate drives (Disk 0 and Disk 1) and there is no additional space on Disk 0 where C resides to use.

So your options are to move as much stuff from the C drive. Check if there is any program saves, music, video files etc. you can move. If that doesn't free up enough space, uninstall the larger programs on the C drive and re-install on the other drive.

johnnybmac

Another couple of things you could do in order to create some space is , run something like ccleaner to get rid of some temp files etc. and you could also right click on the recycle bin - Properties - and make it smaller than the 10% that windows usually reserves for it.

Some people also recommend moving the page file to the second partition and not have one on the C drive (not sure what effect this will have on a separate physical drive)

garroff

garroff

Unbelievable....many thanks to everyone.
Before I started I had 760MB of free space.
After running CCLEANER I have 26GB!!!!!!

I really appreciate the input of everyone.
Thank you all....again.

Allyall

garroff wrote: »

Unbelievable....many thanks to everyone.
Before I started I had 760MB of free space.
After running CCLEANER I have 26GB!!!!!!

I really appreciate the input of everyone.
Thank you all....again.

I misread you had already used it. Luckily johnnybmac posted it.

You must have never cleaned out your Internet history.
A good idea would be also to use Defraggler made by the same people.

That will defrag your hard drive, allowing your PC to fetch files quicker.
Kind of like a Librarian putting all the books in order, by category/alphabetically etc..

In CCleaner on the "Windows" Tab tick every box all the way down except "Saved Passwords" (If you don't want to type them all in yourself) and "Wipe Free Space"

In the "Applications" Tab, tick every box except "Saved Passwords" if it appears.

Below is an example of the two tabs, with Firefox in the Applications Tab.