Alright Facepunch; I installed Win 7 a while ago, I partitioned my 500GB Hard drive so Win7 would have it's own 15gb slice of HDD and everything else would be on my other partition. Big mistake, now I'm having memory issues, or a lack there of, so to fix the issue I bought a TB secondary and backed up all my stuff in the secondary to it.
My question is; would it be possible for me to extend my C: partition into the D: drive space (After I get rid of it) without damaging anything (Namely the OS) in the C: partition? And would renaming the TB partition to D:, after I get rid of the old partition, mitigate any registry issues and allow me to avoid installing everything again? (It sounds like it would work, because as far as I know the registry wouldn't know the difference between a D: partition and a D: TB drive.)
Thanks in advance.
[url]http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/[/url]
read this, should help solve your issue.
I've already read that exact page, it showed me the possibility to fix my issue without the need of a full format and reinstall. (I don't have an operating system disc or key) However, when I shrink my D: drive I can't move that space back to where I need it. Apparently the partition needs to be touching the free space in order to "absorb" it.
I'm asking if I copied all of my D: partition stuff over to my TB drive, got rid of the D: partition and changed the Drive letter of the TB drive to D:; would everything work as if nothing happened with the registry? or would I have to reinstall everything? I do NOT want to reinstall everything, twould be a pain in my ass.
I suppose that I have to get rid of the D: partition regardless. Here's hoping shit will still work after I do.
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Problem. I can't format the D: partition because something else is using it, even though I manually went through and deleted EVERYTHING except my music folder, which was somehow made inaccessible regardless of my best attempts as admin and overriding it (I guess I don't have the right type of admin :argh:). This is getting difficult.
You would need to erase EVERY partition on there except C: and your recovery is you have one and then right click on C and you can then extend it. After its extended you want to Make a New Simple Volume and call it D:
Couple things to consider:
The D: partition probably has index info on it (D:\System Volume Information) that is preventing you from formatting while within Windows. Use GParted to format it so that nothing's using the partition.
The Windows registry does NOT use the physical IDs of drives to identify them, only the drive letter. The only difference between your two setups is that C: and D: would be larger than they used to be.
NOTE: Before using GParted, defragment both your C: partition so that expanding it will be less likely to cause errors.
Gparted can do this in 5 minutes...
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