Can't extend C drive

[dexter11]

I have about 915GB of unallocated space in my D Drive, but I'm unsure of how to move that to my C Drive. When I right click, the "Extend Drive" section is greyed out. Thank you. http://imgur.com/scg0JNR

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, dexter11!

Would you please post a screenshot of what you see about the drive and the partitions in Disk Management (you can use imgur.com to upload the image)? In order to be able to extend a partition via Disk Management, the unallocated space has to be right next to that partition on the right side (if we're talking about the OS drive). Otherwise if it's a secondary drive you can do that even if the unallocated space is not next to the partition you want to extend, but this turns the disk into dynamic and you can't boot with a dynamic disk, so that's why in your case the option is greyed out.
I'd recommend that you backup any important data which you have on that drive (especially partition C, just to be on the safe side. After that, go ahead and download a 3rd party partition management program and try to extend your C: drive this way.

I'd recommend that you wait until I see the screenshot before you do that, just to make sure that this is the case.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[dexter11]

Hey there, dexter11!

Would you please post a screenshot of what you see about the drive and the partitions in Disk Management (you can use imgur.com to upload the image)? In order to be able to extend a partition via Disk Management, the unallocated space has to be right next to that partition on the right side (if we're talking about the OS drive). Otherwise if it's a secondary drive you can do that even if the unallocated space is not next to the partition you want to extend, but this turns the disk into dynamic and you can't boot with a dynamic disk, so that's why in your case the option is greyed out.
I'd recommend that you backup any important data which you have on that drive (especially partition C, just to be on the safe side. After that, go ahead and download a 3rd party partition management program and try to extend your C: drive this way.

I'd recommend that you wait until I see the screenshot before you do that, just to make sure that this is the case.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

Here's a screenshot. Thanks a heap. http://i.imgur.com/scg0JNR.png

 

[iXeon]

if you have 915 GB in unallocated form you could do the extend this way: (be careful if you have the 915 in Partition form you should copy the data on it first!)
1-goto search box and type Diskpart
2-in diskpart type list volume
3-find the number of the volume you want to extend from the list
4-type select volume (number of volume you want to extend) for example : select volume 3
5-type extend
it will automatically detect the unallocated space and will merge it with the selected volume
be carefull to select the volume correctly you can see the partition name from the LTR part of the list

if you have the 915 GB in partition follow this way:
1-make the partition empty
2-goto diskpart
3-type list volume
4-select the 915 GB volume by --- select volume (number)
5-type Delete
6-select the volume you want to extend by --- select volume (number)
7-type extend

 

[iXeon]

you have the operating system on disk 2 so add this:
1-disk part
2-select disk 0
3-list volume
4-select volume (number) the number of 16 GB volume
5-extend

 

[dexter11]

you have the operating system on disk 2 so add this:
1-disk part
2-select disk 0
3-list volume
4-select volume (number) the number of 16 GB volume
5-extend

Tried doing this and it told me that I could not extend a recovery file.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

This won't work. You can't extend the C: partition with the available unallocated space. Those are two separate drives. Just create a single partition (or more if you want to) out of that space and use it for storage and/or programs or whatever you wish to use it for. Here's how to partition and format the drive: How to partition and format a drive on Windows and Mac OSX.
The recovery partition is also not to be extended. Leave it as it is. Usually it should be on the main drive. But I guess that both drives might have been connected to the computer during the Windows installation process and it was created on the secondary drive.

Cheers!

 

[iXeon]

it's ok you can ask 1000 more questions!
look , first of all you have two disks and the 915 gb unallocated is in disk 0 wich is not the same disk that your C drive is on!
so , do you want to extend the 915 GB with the C drive or create another Drive that has 915 gb space?
extending 915 GB with the C drive is not possible (unless you have them in RAID that you don't)
so the only option left is to create a new drive with 915 gb (you can't extend it to 16 gb because it's a recovery partition)
if so creating a new drive from 915 would be this way:
1-go to start
2-on the search box type diskpart
3-run the diskpart
4-type select disk 0
5-type create partition primary size=915520 (the size of the partition in Megabyte for example 915520)
6-type list volume
7-type select volume (number) the number of 915 gb volume from the list
8-type format fs=ntfs quick
9-type assign
10-type active
you are ready to go !

or just simply go to disk manager and right click on the unallocated volume and select New Simple Volume... and go with Graphical user interface but if it didn't work out that way go with the method above

 

[dexter11]

This won't work. You can't extend the C: partition with the available unallocated space. Those are two separate drives. Just create a single partition (or more if you want to) out of that space and use it for storage and/or programs or whatever you wish to use it for. Here's how to partition and format the drive: How to partition and format a drive on Windows and Mac OSX.
The recovery partition is also not to be extended. Leave it as it is. Usually it should be on the main drive. But I guess that both drives might have been connected to the computer during the Windows installation process and it was created on the secondary drive.

Cheers!

Okay thanks so much. Just one more question, so if I do that how do I make it so that all the programs I install go straight to the drive? Thanks again.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

No worries mate.

As for the programs going to that drive (e.g. D: if you select that letter for it), just create a folder where you want to keep all the programs (if you want it to be more organized), something like Program Files in C: drive, but please name it some other way. Whenever you install a game or a program, it's set for its default path, which usually is C:\Program Files, but you can always select a different path (e.g. D:\Programs\ or D:\Games\). Just choose the folder in your D: drive before you continue with the installation.
You could also change the default download path of your browsers to a folder on your secondary drive as well, so that everything you download goes directly to your hard drive and not to your SSD.

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any other questions whatsoever. After all, we're here to help.

 

[iXeon]

the installation root of every program Given when your installing it but the temporary files would be stored on the C drive and you can change it this way:
Control Panel>System>Advanced System Settings>Advanced>Environment Variables
Edit TEMP and TMP folders