Playing with an Acer Aspire3 Win11 laptop I noticed that I had but 1.5 GB free on Drive C: Ladt night I was stymied by an message suggesting that I had unmoveable files. I had tried to (Computer, Manage, Disk Management) extend the boot partition (Partitione1 in the image above) and been thwarted, so I wisely went to bed, and started afresh this morning. The sequence I followed was this:-
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Partition 2 Delete Volume yielded 171 GB unallocated
Partition 1 Extend Volume "None available"
Partition 2 New Simple volume yielded 171 GB which I Quick-formatted
Partition 2 Shrink Volume to 50% yields 86 GB and a Partition 3 of 86 GB
Partition 1 Extend Volume this option unavailable
Partition 2 Delete Volume
Partition 1 Extend Volume I chose to extend to 150 GB (probably overkill) leaving an 86 GB data partition
I am puzzled by the number of steps i went through to achieve my goal.
In particular I am puzzled about Formatting.
Is a Formatted partition defined as "one with unmovable files?" I would have thought Win11 smart enough to see that there were, as yet, no user files present, apart from an empty directory file for the folder C:\
I am still playing, so for the next few days this laptop can suffer a few experiments yet.
Thanks, Chris