Now thats all well and good, but what if i have two partitions say C and D and C has say 40Gb and D has 160Gb making a total of 200Gb C becomes full and D has over 100Gb free and you want to shink D and add some of that space to C vista does not seem to allow this or does it?
Regards
Abe
Hi Abe,
Thanks for your comment.
You might have noticed that shrinking D: volume puts the unallocated space at the end of D: partition.
You can only extend a partition if the unallocated space is immediately at the end of that partition, in this case having the unallocated space between C: and D: volumes will let you extend the C: volume.
Now, here is a solution I can think of right away;
1- Temporarily move all the Data from D: volume to someplace else
2- Change the D: drive letter to a different drive letter that is available on the system (for instance Z:)
3- Shrink Z: to whatever size that you’d like to add to C: volume.
4- Create a new volume out of the unallocated space that was taken from Z: and assign D: as the drive letter.
5- Delete Z: volume that will make it an unallocated partition between C: and D:
6- Extend the C: partition.
Hope this helps!
-Mark
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Q (Miriam S);
I read your description of extending the boot volume (Feb 24, 2009) with great interest. Can I do this when I have mirrored drives? I am running Server 2008 and have 2 80G drives mirrored, with C: and D: partitions. The C: partition has become too small. I can move everything off the D: partition and delete that partition and it sounds like it would be simple to extend the C: partition to take up the whole 80G. But what about the fact that this is a mirrored drive?
A: Depends on if you have hardware or software you might be able to do this. If the Disk Management Console provides you with Shrink or Extend Option you should be good.
