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A perhaps overly simple question:

I rushed into cloning my 320GB HDD to a 480GB SSD. There were two partitions on the old drive. A backup (D;/ Approx 40 gb allocated) with Win 7 recovery files etc., and the normal C;/ drive. I used the clone option and it works fine except that the relatively small backup drive is now large at 134GB with about 14 gb used space. The C:/ is about 300gb. I know now I probably should have done a backup and restore to properly size the partition.

Question:

1. Can I resize the partion now to apply the space to my C:/ drive?

If so, how? I presume not.

If i need to reclone the the old HDD, Do I need to prepare the SSD a special way? Can I just overwrite the previous clone? or how would I prepare SSD? just delete it?

 

Thanks.

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Hello, you should be able to shrink the expanded D:\ backup partition using Windows Disk Management - right click on My Computer (This PC) and select Manage, then when the Computer Management panel opens, choose Disk Management.

Select the D: Partition and right-click on this, then choose the option to Shrink the partition.

Once you have shrunk the partition, then you can see if you have an option to expand the Windows partition using the same technique.  If not, then you will need to use a tool such as Acronis Disk Director if you have it, or else you can use a free tool such as Easeus Partition Manager - this will allow you to move the backup partition if the freed space is not adjacent to your Windows partition.

Steve,

 

Thanks. I did resize it and it created unallocated space of 107 gb. I was unable to etend the C;/ drive. I also tried using the EaseUS Partition Manager but it had no options to extend C;/ beyond what it is currently at. I tried to merge with the unallocated portion and it is grayed out for that.

 

So... I am content to reclone the SSD from the original HDD. It did not take terribly long. So how do I

1. Prepare the SSD for this?

2, Set the configurations to have the Backup drive remain at 40 gb as it was on original drive, (or, do I need that much since there is only 15gb of stuff in it?) and properly make use of as much remaining in the C;/ partition?

Again I am going from a 320 gb  HDD to a 480 gb SSD.

Thanks

 

Can you provide a screen capture showing how your partitions are sized and where the unallocated space is please?

I suspect the when you resized the D: Backup partition, that the unallocated space is shown to the right of this partition, therefore before you can resize your C: Windows partition to use that space, you would first need to Move the D: Backup partition to the end of the unallocated space, so that this would now be inbetween the C: and D: partitions.

Once you have that space inbetween the partitions, then it is fairly simple to resize C: to use it all.

If you are using Easeus Partition Manager, then to move the D: partition, you first select that partition, then click on the option to Resize / Move, then you simply 'grab' it with your mouse and slide it to the right end of the panel shown, then finally you click on Apply to complete the action.  For the C: partition, do the same, select the partition, click Resize / Move, but this time move the mouse over the right-end of the existing partition area and then drag the right edge to the right until it fills the unallocated space, then again click on Apply.  This second Apply will want to reboot the system to complete this resize action during the restart before Windows is started.