My laptop's C: drive is full.
Too many big programs (Solidworks, AutoCad, etc) (none of which I really want to uninstall just to free up space)
I've staved off the problem temporarily by C-Cleanering lots of temporary files away, but ideally I'd like to expand the partiton of the C drive, by say, 5GB or so.
All my personal files & data live on D, which is another partition on the same physical disk, and I have approx 23GB of spare space on that.
As it was, both C and D drives were the same size, 70.7 GB each.
So using Vista's built in Disk Management I have shrunk the D volume by 5 GB (new size = 65.4GB) leaving me with 5GB of unallocated space on my hard drive. This was dead easy peasy. However, when I come to extend the C volume into the unallocated space, the option to extend is greyed out.
Reading various articles on the web makes me think I can't extend C into the space I freed up using Disk Manager, since it is not continuous with (not next to) where the C volume is.
It seems that the way to get the free space where it needs to be would be to back up all the data on D, delete the D volume completely, extend the C volume , reinstate D, and put all my data back again.
Now I could do this - I have an external HDD big enough to accommodate the entire of my D drive's data - but it seems like a massive amount of effort, and probably pretty time-consuming too!
I have also read about diskpart.exe , which is a comandline tool that extends the functionality of Disk Management, but I'm not 100% on how to use it, or if indeed it can do what I want it to do.
I would appreciate some advise from the Lounge : this kind of thing must be bread & butter to you guys!
I've attached screenshot of Disk Management for your perusal.
stuckling1
