Increasing size of C Drive - Non-continuous space

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Tricky one this. I have a single HDD in a Toshiba laptop. This is split into 5 individual partitions that appear in the following 'order' in the ADD main window:

C Drive NTFS Primary MBR
HDD Recovery [Hidden] FAT32 Primary MBR
F Drive NTFS
E Drive NTFS
ASZ [Acronis Secure Zone]

There is a CD/DVD allocated to D:

My problem is that my C Drive is nearly full - and I want to increase it's size. There is spare capacity in either the F or E Drives - but I can't seem to find any way to get at it. If I create an unallocated partition from the F Drive - the HDD Recovery drive which sits between it and the C Drive - appears to stop me getting access and joing it to my C Drive

I have tried renaming the CD/DVD drive to something other than D [for instance M], then creating a a partition from F - and then renaming this 'D' [and perhaps get it to be adjascent to C]. However this doesn't work.

My head is starting to hurt from all this!

If anyone has got any suggestions - I'd be very happy to hear.

Mon, 11/07/2011 - 19:02
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Generally, you would do something like the following:

  1. Resize F: smaller from the left side. This may take a while depending on the amount of data that needs to be moved.
  2. Move the Recovery partition to the right so that it's next to F:. The unallocated space should now be between C: and Recovery.
  3. Resize C: larger from the right.

It's recommended to create an Entire Disk Image backup before making partitioning changes (just in case anything goes wrong).

Fri, 11/11/2011 - 17:58
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MudCrab.. Brilliant. This sequence solved it.

I see now that you have a choice of which 'side' of each partition to create the unallocated space - which I had not realised before. I've always just entered the size via the 'box'.

Thanks very much.

Sat, 11/12/2011 - 17:30