- In conclusion, this tutorial presents four solutions to increase C drive space without formatting computer or losing any data in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Disk Management works in very few situations, and you can use third-party disk partition software in most cases to extend C drive.
- Sep 18, 2018 Shrink Volume can only shrink a partition towards left and produce Unallocated on the right side. As you see, the 20GB Unallocated is non adjacent to C drive after shrinking D, of course Extend Volume is greyed out. The only way to enable Extend Volume for C drive is by deleting the contiguous partition.
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Does your C drive full? Want to Extend C drive? It is must to have enough free space on C Drive. Otherwise your PC will work slow. Don’t worry you can increase your C drive space without loosing data.
In this tutorial you will learn how to merge disk 0 and disk 1 in windows 10. Further, you will also learn how to change disk 1 to disk 0 in windows 10. Nov 16, 2019 Extend C drive with continuous Unallocated space Windows 10 has Extend Volume function in its native Disk Management tool, which can be used to extend both system and data partitions without losing data on the fly. However, there must be adjacent Unallocated space on the right side of the drive that you want to extend.
When you install any program, that will take some amount of space in your C drive. As time passes, one day it will get full. Even if it is not full, you will see some degradation in your PC speed. Your OS must have some free space in your C drive. When you don’t have enough space, your OS will not work properly.
How to Extend C drive
Here I am showing you two ways to extend C drive space. First method is, by using inbuilt Windows disk management feature and second one is, by using third-party software.
1.Using Windows disk management feature
Caution: If you don’t use this feature properly, there is chance that you may lose your data. And Windows disk management feature has limited functionality.
1.Open file explorer by pressing Windows + E.
2.Right click on This PC or My Computer depends on your OS version.
3.Select Manage option.
4.Select Disk management option in Computer Management window.
Look at above screenshot. I have C,E & F drives in sequence. If you want to increase C drive space, you must have unallocated space right to C drive. So you need to delete drive which is right to C drive. Before deleting the drive, make sure you have transferred your data to other drive or to other external hard drive.
5.Right click on E drive or any other drive which is just right to your C drive.
6.Select Delete Volume. If your drive is big, use Shrink Volume option to shrink volume of E drive. For Example, your E drive volume is 150 GB, and you need only 50GB to add to C drive. If you use Delete volume option, you could add 150GB to C drive. So shrink it to 50GB, you will get unallocated 100GB drive right to E drive. Rename that drive with some other letter. Now delete this 50 GB E drive.
After deleting E drive, you will see Unallocated space right to C drive.
7.Right click on C drive.
8.Select Extend Volume. Select Next and Finish.
By using Disk management option, you must delete volume next to C drive. Because you can not create unallocated space left to any drive by using Shrink Volume option. You can create unallocated space only to right of any drive. To Extend C drive volume without deleting any drive, you need to go for third-party partition tools.
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2.Using Macrorit Partition Expert Pro
I use Macrorit partition Expert Pro. Because it is very easy to use software. It comes with lifetime license. It is very inexpensive compare to other softwares. It is very fast. It is even available in portable version. And it give many features other than resizing partitions. You can also read my Macrorit Partition Expert Pro review.
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Select E drive.
Click Resize/Move Volume in left menu.
Just drag from left side to create unallocated space left to E drive. And click OK.
Once again you will be in main screen. Now select C drive. You will see another window where you can drag towards right side.
Click OK.
Click Commit at top. It will boot your PC and within 10 minutes, you will have free space in C drive.
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The computer runs slowly when the C drive is full. You need to make space on C drive. The most useful and common way is to increase C drive space from D drive using disk management. But most people will format D drive and then extend C drive at the cost of D drive data. Here we will introduce a safe way to move space from D drive to C drive in Windows 10/8/7 without data loss. Of course, you need to spend more time dealing with the D drive data. If you do not value about your D drive data, you can directly go to Part 2 to extend C drive in Disk Management.
Part 1: Back up D Drive Data to another Drive or External Hard Disk
Yes, first of all, you need to back up D drive data no matter how much data your store. To make a full backup of Windows data partition data, you need to find powerful Windows partition copy software. CloneGo is the right one for you to free download and back up the data quickly and safely.
Step 1: Open CloneGo and choose Backup from the left panel.
Step 2: Pick D drive to back up.
Step 3: Set a destination to store the D drive partition. It can be the other drivers on the same hard disk or any partition in a different hard disk.
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Step 4: Click “Start” and confirm the backup operation.
After that, you will get the D drive data compressed as a file in another place, which can be restored later with this software.
Part 2: Delete D Drive and Extend C Drive Space Using Disk Management
Step 1: Choose Manage from the right-click panel of Computer or This PC in your Windows desktop (Windows 7: Computer; Windows 10: This PC).
Step 2: Find your D drive under Disk Management category, and then right-click D drive to get “Delete Volume” option.
Step 3: Click “Delete Volume” and get the text message to ask your permission. Click “Yes” to continue. After that, you will get a large unallocated space behind C drive.
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Step 4: Now you can right click C drive and choose “Extend volume” option.
Step 5: Get the Extend Volume Wizard and you should directly click “Next”.
Step 6: Here, you need to accurate the free size that can move from the original D drive. In the Maximum available space, you need to keep the space for the new D drive. So, you need to set the amount of space accurately.
Step 7: Next, follow the Extend Volume Wizard to finish the C drive extend process.
Part 3: Create New D Drive for Your Computer and Restore the Original D Drive Data
Also, in Disk management, you can make use of the remaining unallocated space to create the new volume and allocate the drive letter D to it. After that, restore the original D drive data to the new D volume and you will get it the same as the old one.
Step 1: Right click the unallocated space and choose New Simple Volume. Then follow the New Simple Volume Wizard to add the new D volume.
Step 2: Run CloneGo again and select Restore this time.
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Step 3: Set the new D drive as the restoration destination.
Step 4: Click the Choose button to import the previous backup file into the software.
Step 5: Click Start and it will format your new D drive.
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Step 6: Get the D drive restored and you do not lose any data to extend C drive space.
You can free download iSunshare CloneGo to backup D drive data to another drive safely. In this way, you will not lose D drive data. If your D drive data is not important, you can directly delete D drive and extend C volume.
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