Re: Resizing C partition

John Barnett MVP wrote:
Installing programs on a different drive/partition has no real benefit. If the system crashes and you have to re-install windows, you still have to re-install all the programs so why waste valuable disk space on a seperate program store. As you have found out, when installing programs, there are always files that 'must' install on the C drive regardless of where you direct the original application to be installed.

Why chance wiping out the data just to reinstall Windows? Using
partitions I may need to reinstall the applications but at least the
data and other files will still be there.

Expanding a partition relies upon there being space to 'expand' If, for example you have drive C: the directly next to it drive D: you are unable to expand the drive because drive/partition D is in the way. If you shrink partition D (from the front) then whatever you shrink D by shows as unallocated space, thus leaving a gap between C and D. C can then expand into this gap.

I thought that too but currently noticing that once another partition
occupied the space and was later deleted that C won't expand into it.
.

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