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Amber S
Amber S asked in Computers & InternetHardwareLaptops & Notebooks · 8 years ago

How can I allocate my extra partition into one drive?

I have a new ASUS Touchscreen with Windows 8.1 It has two hard drives, or rather two partitions on the hard drive. C: has 185GB and D: has 258GB. I want to either join them so I have more space (as obviously that is not enough space on my C drive), or re-partition so I can give more of the D: drive space to C. Is this even possible and if so how would I go about doing it?

Update:

Ok, so I just tried what you suggested...I am able to shrink D, but cannot grow C because it is a boot drive...I don't like this at all...I want it all once space...all my installs and everything go to the C drive and I'm getting close to capacity...I only have about 35GB of free space left in C

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago
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    Allocate all future installs to the D drive and move your non-OS files, like data and music files, to that drive too.

    Or you could delete the D partition and then allocate the empty space to C:.

  • gladiator
    8 years ago

    There is absolutely no way to increase the size of C drive (or any other drive) without re partitioning the entire disk.Also there is no way you could combine those drives ,but you could easily split up drives as you have done before,If you could afford one , try buying an External Hard disk and copy some of the data onto that..

    or you could format the entire disk and re partition the drive while installing a new copy of Windows and combine those drives,but it won't be a very bright idea considering that you have a lot of required data on your Disk

  • Ben
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    If those are actually two partitions on the same drive, then you can open the Computer Management application on your computer. Go to "Disk Management" in there, and you'll see a map of the hard drive. From there, you can shrink the D drive and grow the C drive.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    do not do that. Learn to save you stuff on either drive. Also, defragging will be easier as will chkdsk on smaller drives.

    I partition everything to 25 gb, so that sometimes I have 8 drives

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