I have two hard disk of 30GB each.
I would like to use the second hard disk to expand the space of my first hard disk.
Is there anyway to do this? (Without having to reinstall everything?)Windows 8 after 2 days has already used 25GB.
Be Aware: they are NOT on the same HDD.
user63099
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Natively, you can't. If it was a raid before installing Windows, you could use two hard drives and extend, but you can't do so after Windows is installed, on the boot drive.
Canadian LukeCanadian Luke
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This doesn't work if the partition you are extending has Windows on it, since Windows labels them as a
Boot drive and they can't be extended across other disks. The only solution would be to use a hardware RAID at this moment.
There is no need for third party utilities this time, for that you'll have to convert your disks to what Windows calls 'dynamic disk' and then extend the volume across disks.
This would be the procedure:
XandyXandy
Check out Storage Spaces. Paul Thurrott has an excellent article on it. In short, hit the Windows key and type 'Storage Spaces'.
I am not sure if you can add drives to the C: drive however, so this might not be the answer you seek.
PeterPeter
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How do I extend my C drive?
From: Extend a Basic Volume
You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by extending them into adjacent unallocated space on the same disk. To extend a basic volume, it must be raw or formatted with the NTFS file system. You can extend a logical drive within contiguous free space in the extended partition that contains it.
I can extend my D drive, but not C. I suspect the problem is that the unallocated space is not 'adjacent', but I have no clue how to change that.
How can I solve this?
Jonathan
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You cannot do that with windows onboard tools.
There are various tools available that would allow you to move the D partition to the end of the free space, thereby freeing space after C, but this is a relatively dangerous operation (if you have a power failure during the move, you could loose the content of D or the whole disk), and not strictly necessary.
In your case, it's probably easier to just
(NB: on a hard disk, the space for a partition needs to be physically contiguous, on SSD's, this should be irrelevant, but that's what you get when you insist on emulating old hardware..)
thsths
Slightly Left field answer:
How To Extend C Drive In Windows 10 Using Cmd
I'm not sure how effective this solution would be for someone with more data than you have. 30GB shouldn't take too long to move.
Joe TaylorJoe Taylor
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Convert the disk to a dynamic disk and it will let you extend it into the space a the end of the disk.
Just right click on Disk 0 and choose Convert to Dynamic disk. It will popup lots of warnings about not being able to boot other partitions/oses and so on. As you have the simplest of setups here you can OK them and convert.
You should then be able to extend the partition into the space at the end of the disk.
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Today, we will see how to extend a partition or disk on your drive in Windows 10. This can be useful if you have extra space on your drive which you would like to use for storing your files and folders. Or if you have deleted a partition, you may want to use the available space without creating an extra partition.
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In older Windows releases, extending a volume required a third-party tool. Modern Windows versions like Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 allow extending partitions with free space in order to enlarge their size and use the free space for storing your data.
Many users prefer to create multiple partitions on their drive to avoid storing all data on the system partition which has Windows installed. Traditionally, the system drive is your C: drive. If it is large enough, you can shrink it and have partitions D:, E: and so on. See the following article:
Windows 10 offers a number of methods that you can use to extend your partitions. These include Disk Management, the console tool 'DiskPart', and PowerShell.
To extend a partition in Windows 10, do the following.
You are done.
The process takes a few seconds but Disk Management shows no progress bar. Once the process is done, it will show you the new size of the partition and any unallocated space, if present.
Note: If for some reason, you are unable to extend your partition or if Disk Management gives you an error, you can try the following. Open System Protection and disable it temporarily for the partition which you wish to extend. Shadow copies, Restore Points and such system data sometimes prevent Windows from changing the partition. The maximum number of reclaimable bytes might be higher once system protection is disabled for the partition. You can re-enable System Protection once you have extended the partition.
Extend a partition using DiskPart
DiskPart is a text-mode command interpreter bundled with Windows 10. This tool enables you to manage objects (disks, partitions, or volumes) by using scripts or by direct input at the command prompt.
Tip: DiskPart can be used to wipe a disk or a partition securely.
To extend a partition using DiskPart, do the following.
You should see the message DiskPart successfully extended the volume.
Finally, you can use PowerShell for doing the same operation.
Extend a partition using PowerShell
Tip: The -Size argument accepts size modifiers like:
-Size 1KB - for one kilobyte.
-Size 1MB - for one megabyte. -Size 1GB - for one gigabyte.
That's it!
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Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1, 10, and Vista include a built-in functionality in Disk Management to shrink and expand partitions. No more 3rd party utilities needed! It’s worth noting that many third-party utilities will be more feature-rich, but you can do the very basic stuff in Windows without adding anything new.
To get to this utility, open up Control Panel, and type in partition into the search box. you’ll immediately see the link show up:
If you are in Windows 8 or 8.1 you’ll need to use the Start Screen search. If you are in Windows 10, just use the Start Menu or the Control Panel search. Either way, the same thing will come up.
How to Shrink a Partition
In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that you want to shrink, and select “Shrink Volume” from the menu.
In the Shrink dialog, you will want to enter the amount you want to shrink by, not the new size. For example, if you want to shrink your 50gb partition by roughly 10gb so that it will now be roughly 40gb, enter 10000 into the box:
How to Extend a Partition
In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that you want to shrink, and select “Extend Volume” from the menu.
On this screen, you can specify the amount that you want to increase the partition by. In this case, I’m going to extend it back to the roughly 50GB size that it was before.
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Sometimes, an extra chunk of storage exists on a hard drive. You can use that unallocated portion of disk space to make a drive’s main volume larger.
To know whether you have unallocated space on your disk drive, you can look at the drive in the Disk Management console window.
What may not be obvious is that you can use any chunk of unallocated storage on any drive to make any other drive larger. You can even combine unused chunks from several hard drives to increase the storage capacity of a single drive. To make any or all of that happen, follow these steps:
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