My c drive is running low on how do i get more?

[Comsocc]

My c drive is running really low on space so I was wondering how to add more space from my e drive which has like 900 gigs of empty space onto my c drive? Should I just move all my c drive stuff onto my e drive or what?

 

[Corey Martin]

Well, assuming they are two separate hard drives, you can move all of your personal files and documents to the E drive, yes. But don't move any of your Windows system files to the E drive. Also, no, you cannot take space off of one drive and put it onto the other. It's not possible.

 

[Comsocc]

Well, assuming they are two separate hard drives, you can move all of your personal files and documents to the E drive, yes. But don't move any of your Windows system files to the E drive. Also, no, you cannot take space off of one drive and put it onto the other. It's not possible.

The two things are not separate hard drives. I just divided one hard drive into a c drive and an e drive. I was wondering if I could take some extra space from the e drive and put it on the c drive. Once again the two things are the same hard drive just different partitions.

 

[JMR120600]

You would have to re partition your drive, which as far as I'm aware requires also a reformat of the drive.

 

[Comsocc]

You would have to re partition your drive, which as far as I'm aware requires also a reformat of the drive.

Does reformatting the drive require deleting everything on it?

 

[Corey Martin]

You would have to re partition your drive, which as far as I'm aware requires also a reformat of the drive.

Does reformatting the drive require deleting everything on it?

Yes. It does. If it's possible you can back up everything on the other partition (non-windows) and delete the partition. Then, right click on the OS partition and press "expand partition" and do as much as you can.

 

[JMR120600]

Have you conisdered deleting non important files? or moving some files off your PC and into cloud storage or another device. If you want to find out what is taking up a lot of space use a program such as spacesniffer.

 

[jsmithepa]

You can re-partition without deleting but a $Third Party App is required. Partition Magic?

This is what I would do, because I too am cheap:

Let say you currently have 100G on C: and 900G on E (but only 100G of that 900G is used): total HD size 1 TB.

OK let say you want to make your C: into 300G and shrink E: to 700G.

Go into Storage Management and see if you can re-parition (shrink) E: to 200G (yes TWO) without losing data. You should be able to do this because Windows doesn't have to move anything, it just re-adjusts free space from 900G to 200G.

If you are able to do that, now you should have C: 100G, E: 200G, UNALLOCATED PARTITION 700G. Format the 700G partition, give it a letter, say F:, then COPY EVERYTHING E: ---> F:

After everything copied, change driver letters E: --> Z: then F: --> E: Reboot and verify you can still access stuff on E: as before.

Now you can delete partition Z: THEN EXTEND C: to take over free space left by Z:


Good luck and don't call me! 😀