As the D drive is completely empty, i. If drive D is immediately to the right of C in the graphical layout, your luck is in, so:. Right-click the D graphic and choose Delete to leave Unallocated space. Right-click the C graphic and choose Extend and select the amount of space you want to extend it by. Any space that you left in 2 can be set up as a new smaller drive D by right-clicking it and creating a New Simple Volume and Formatting it.
Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. After a while, you may find the C: drive is full again. To solve C: drive full problem, the best way should be extending C: drive with the free space on the hard drive.
Some users choose to re-install system for re-partitioning hard drive. And you can use it to extend the C: drive without reinstalling OS. If your C: drive is Full but D: drive is empty, you can use the free space in D: drive to extend C: drive. Step 1. It will show you the basic environment of your disks. Step 2. Then, it will pop up the window that you can allocate free space from D: drive to C: drive. After setting up, click "OK ". If your C: drive is full, but there is unallocated space on the hard drive, you can extend the C: drive with the unallocated space.
When you meet the problem that C: drive is full without reason , you can empty C: drive with the 5 methods we list above, or try to extend C: drive with free disk space on the hard drive. Hope this article can help you a lot. If you have any other ideas, welcome to share in the comment space.
Method 1. Disable hibernate 1. Double-click This Computer. Method 2. Run Disk Cleanup You can also empty C: drive by cleaning it. After that, it will calculating how much space you will be able to free on C: drive. Note that deleting the D: drive will convert it into "unallocated space".
Another complication is that laptops usually have a hidden partition to provide a "recovery" feature, so that you can easily restore your PC to the factory condition. It's a good idea to back up the recovery partition to DVD, though I still wouldn't delete it, unless you really have to. As you may have gathered, Microsoft's built-in tool is not very powerful, so you're probably better off using a third-party option such as Acronis Disk Director 11 Home or one of the free programs, Partition Wizard Home Edition or EaseUs Partition Master 6.
Life is easier if you don't actually boot from the drive you are trying to repartition. However, as the GParted Live CD page warns: "It is recommended to do a whole disk or partition image backup before you use GParted to resize or move your partition. But, instead of changing the partitions, you could actually change the way you use your hard drives. Many geeks like to keep their data separate from the operating system.
This makes it easier to make backups of the data on the D: partition, and easier to replace or reinstall the operating system on C:. Unfortunately, many software companies base their easy installation routines on the assumption that everything is going to go on the C: drive, so non-geeks almost inevitably end up with packed C: drives and empty D: drives. This is bad news because of the way Windows' performance declines when it runs out of hard drive space, which is why I keep recommending people to keep 2GB or at least 1GB free on C:.
Nowadays, many Windows users have a few folders that are full of relatively large files: high-resolution photos, music tracks, movie files and so on. If that's your problem, it's easy to free up space on C: by moving these to the D: drive, or to an external hard drive.
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