[SOLVED] Can't extend C drive

[modboxers]

I have a SSD for my C drive and have partitioned it so I can just have my operating system on that and everything else on another drive. However, that is nearly full and when I go to extend it it doesn't let me even though I have 200+ gb free on my other partition. I have tried using mini partition wizard but that doesn't let me do it either. Any way I can extend it without having to wipe it? Thanks for any help.

 

[karenjoly]

post a screen of disk management for the machine

 

[kerberos_20]

free space should be available behind your system drive (sys partition 1, free space, partiton 2+), if there is another partition before that free space (sys part 1, partition2, free space), then u will need to move your non system partition(s) to right side, so that free space will be behind sys drive

 

[modboxers]

post a screen of disk management for the machine

https://imgur.com/a/8OoF6yL

 

[kerberos_20]

free space is kinda missing in that immage, but lets suppose u get it from SSD ( A: ), it will be maddde at end of drive, so u will need to move A: to right side, to make free space before it, then do same for efi drive, and same will go for restore partition

btw do u know about usage of A: and B: drive letters? am no saing its impossible to use them, but windows wont threat them same way as C or any other drive letter

 

[modboxers]

free space is kinda missing in that immage, but lets suppose u get it from SSD ( A: ), it will be maddde at end of drive, so u will need to move A: to right side, to make free space before it, then do same for efi drive, and same will go for restore partition

btw do u know about usage of A: and B: drive letters? am no saing its impossible to use them, but windows wont threat them same way as C or any other drive letter

how do I move things over? do i need to use a different program to disk management?

 

[USAFRet]

1. Don't use A & B for drive letters.
Yes, it will let you do it. But those are legacy drive letters, and WIndows treats them differently.
https://www.howtogeek.com/122891/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for/
https://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for

2. For your actual issue:
This stems from having only ~65GB for the OS partition. As you've seen, this runs out quickly.

What, exactly, is in the A partition? Fixing this may be rather complex.

 

[modboxers]

1. Don't use A & B for drive letters.
Yes, it will let you do it. But those are legacy drive letters, and WIndows treats them differently.
https://www.howtogeek.com/122891/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for/
https://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for

2. For your actual issue:
This stems from having only ~65GB for the OS partition. As you've seen, this runs out quickly.

What, exactly, is in the A partition? Fixing this may be rather complex.

the A partition just has games and game launchers on it.

 

[USAFRet]

the A partition just has games and game launchers on it.

Games and launchers, which have shortcuts leading to locations on "the A drive".

What needs to happen is you copy everything from the A partition to somewhere else.
Then, you merge the C partition and the A partition.
Due to the location of these partitions, you'd have to use a 3rd party tool like Minitool Partition Wizard.
This results in that 500GB drive being one big space.

But, then all your shortcuts and references to the A partition are broken.