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Is there any way to add disk space in C drive from another drive in Windows 7?

- without affecting existing installations, because free space in C drive of my laptop is decreasing day by daydue to software updating.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Is there 2 separate HDD or are they 2 separate partitions? (id imagine 2 partitions, as most laptops arnt capable of using 2+ hdd, only the REALLY high end ones are)

    If they are 2 separate partitions you can take some from one and put it on the other w/o affecting anything.

    Go to start > right click on my computer and click manage, or just type computer management into the search bar.

    In that window, click on disk management.

    Right click on the volume you wish to take free space from. Then click shrink volume.

    Go through the process window that comes up (remember 1024MB=1GB, also if you have 10GB of free space on that drive, doesnt mean you will be able to take 10GB away.)

    This will take that much and it will show up as partitioned space.

    Then right click your main partition, choose extend volume, and chose the unpartitioned space and set it to use all of the space.

    and your done, restart your computer.

    (and if you want to take precautions, defragment both partitions first. then restart your computer. Then go to start > computer > right drive > properties > tools > error checking. Check each for errors, and repair if needed. restart your computer. Doing this will not only have less chances of things going wrong and you losing data, and defraging can open up more space you could take from a partition).

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    There is a way to do that. You can't add the two drives together but you can convince Windows that it's still using drive C for certain things when it's really using drive D by creating symbolic links.

    Example - moving your Steam games folder to drive D

    Close Steam down

    Copy the Steam folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam to D:\Steam

    Delete the original Steam folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam

    Open the command prompt from the start menu (type cmd.exe into the search box)

    At the command prompt type the following command:

    mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam" "D:\Steam"

    You've just made a link on the C drive where Steam was that will make Windows access it's new location on the D drive without even realising that it's doing so, it'll behave as if it's still where it used to be, including when you install new games through Steam.

    So to recap:

    mklink /J "original folder location" "new folder location"

    Apart from this you can right click your personal folders (My Music, My Documents, etc) and relocate them to your new drive, Windows will ask if you want it to move all the files to the new location for you.

    Edit: It's a laptop? In that case the only option open to you is to buy a larger drive and clone yours onto it unless you have a rare laptop with two hard drive bays.

  • Erika
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    IT IS IMPOSSIBLE

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