Re: Is 30Gb going to be big enough for vista system files and programs?
- From: Ringmaster <bigtop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:46:41 -0500
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 17:16:18 +0100, "Spikey" <.> wrote:
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:06:14 +0100, "Spikey" <.> wrote:
otherwise never. So yes, I would say your best choice is to reduce the
size of your D partition and extend C.
I have never tried doing it directly from any build-in Windows tools,
but have using third party software many times and the process is
relatively safe. The main risk is if something bad happens while the
change is being made everything could end up toast so be sure you have
backups of your most critical stuff first.
Everythings all backed up. The worst bit of doing a clean install is
getting up to date again with the windows updates.
I experimentally shrunk the D: ( empty anyway) by 10Gb. However the C:
option of extending was still greyed out. Is there something else I should
have done first??
Since I never tried using Windows directly for this task (I assume you
are) tell us if you're using something else, I can't say for sure why
C is grayed out.
It is hard to put into words and screams out for some visual example.
Basically you're dealing with allocated verses unallocated space. This
is different then "free" space. Free space is simply unused, meaning
not occupied by files, but something that still is assigned TO BE USED
by some partition so it simply can't be given over to another
partition.
When you first format a drive and carve it up into different
partitions you are in effect using whatever the capacity of the hard
drive is, usually leaving zero unallocated space. Once done, all the
space is therefore allocated and divided between the partitions you
created.
To change this requires making some of this allocated space
unallocated again then assigning the now unallocated space to the
drive letter you want to make larger.
How this happens depends on what software you use. With most software
tools you move a slider reducing one partition's size, this should
then become unallocated space which the partition you wish to grow can
now claim and in effect "grow" by the size of the unallocated space
making it allocated to the new partition.
Like I said the doing is easier then trying to explain it in words.
I found the following which gives some visual aids. It is generally
much simpler in third party software. For reasons I'll never
understand Microsoft has a talent for making simple tasks needlessly
complicated and clumsy.
http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-to-manage-your-disks-using-only-Windows-Vista-Disk-Management-tool
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