Hi, Avinash.
Good! Since you still have plenty of free space on Drives E: and F:, the
process I suggested in my example should work well. ;<)
First, before starting Disk Management, make sure Drive D:'s 46 GB of
contents is preserved. (If some of it is unimportant to you, then you can
save time by deleting it in advance; no sense in moving it back and forth if
you don't need or want it anymore.) You can use any copy or move program at
your disposal, including good old Windows Explorer. Move to either Drive E:
or Drive F:, since both have plenty of free space. Create a new folder with
a name like "DBak" so that you don't mix D:'s files with those already on
the destination drive. If you use Copy, rather than Move, the original
files will remain on Drive D:, but only until you delete that partition, of
course.
Also, decide HOW MUCH space you want to add to Drive C:. Vista tends to
GROW on us! We can partially control it by putting applications and some
other files on other drives, but it continues to grow. Mine started at 20
GB; it has grown to 60 GB and has less than 10 GB free now. :>( For this
post, I'll assume that you want to grow yours by another 20 GB to make it 40
GB total.
Then, using Disk Management:
Step 1: Delete Drive D:.
Step 2: Right-click on Drive C: and choose Extend volume. In the wizard,
specify how much space to add to Drive C:. The "Select Disks" page can be
slightly confusing (to me, at least). It should show nothing under
"Available" (unless you have a second HD you haven't mentioned). Under
Selected, you should see "Disk 0 - 100000 MB". (All these numbers are
approximate, but it should represent ABOUT 100 GB.) On the lines below, you
should see the current size of Drive C: (20000 MB) and the max available for
expansion (100000 MB) the size of the former Drive D. The bottom line will
probably show something like 100001 MB, 1 MB more than actually available; I
suppose this is to keep us from blindly accepting the default, which should
produce an error. To extend your Drive C: to 40 GB from its present 20 GB,
type "20000" into that bottom box and press Next. The actual extension
process is surprisingly quick, probably less than 1 minute.
Step 3: Recreate Drive D: by right-clicking on the 80 GB Free Space
following Drive C:, choose New simple volume and follow the wizard to create
a new 80 GB partition, format it NTFS and name it Drive D:.
Step 4: Exit Disk Management and Move all your 46 GB of files from DBak on
Drive E: or F: to the Root of the new Drive D:.
All done!
Please let us know how this works out for you.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
"Avinash" <> wrote in message
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> Hi RC,
>
> The details for each partition - C: - 20GB - 4GB free - Vista
> D: - 100GB - 54GB free -Data
> E: - 100GB - 80GB free - Data
> F: - 100GB - 81 free - Data
>
> Can you help in the best way to backup the contains D: in to the F: drive.
>
> Thanks
>
> Avinash
>
>
> "R. C. White" wrote:
>
>> Hi, Avinash.
>>
>> That sounds like a job for...Disk Management!
>>
>> There are several ways to start DM. My favorite is to press the Start
>> button, type in diskmgmt.msc, and press Enter.
>>
>> One of the new commands in the Vista version of DM is "Extend volume".
>> If
>> there is unpartitioned space immediately following Drive C:, then you can
>> extend Drive C: to use all or part of that space. If that space is
>> occupied, you will need to reorganize its contents so that you can delete
>> that partition. Perhaps you can backup all the files that you want to
>> keep,
>> or move them to one of the other partitions, at least temporarily.
>>
>> When the second partition is empty (or holds nothing that you need to
>> keep),
>> just right-click on the partition and choose Delete volume. Disk
>> Management
>> should then show that area as Free Space. Then right-click on Drive C:
>> and
>> choose Extend volume. Follow the wizard's steps and note that it asks
>> for
>> the amount of space in MEGAbytes, not GB. So if you want to extend Drive
>> C:
>> by 10 GB, tell it 10,000. (Voice of experience. When drives and
>> partitions
>> were much smaller, I wanted to extend by 3 GB so I told it 3; since 3 MB
>> was
>> too small to be valid, the wizard used the default, which is ALL the
>> available space. Instead of 3 GB, my drive was extended by the full 8 GB
>> before the next partition.)
>>
>> For an example with made-up numbers, assume:
>> Drive C: - Vista - 20 GB
>> Drive D: - Data - 100 GB, of which only 50 GB is used
>> Drive E: - Photos - 100 GB, with 80 GB unused
>> Drive F: - Emails - 100 GB, with 20 GB unused
>>
>> You could move the 50 GB from D: to E:, then delete D:. This would give
>> you
>> 100 GB of contiguous free space immediately following C:. Then extend C:
>> by
>> 10,000 MB (10 GB) to make it a 30 GB volume, leaving 90 GB of free space
>> between C: and E:. Create a new Drive D: in that 90 GB space. Move the
>> 50
>> GB of D:'s former contents from E: back to the new D:. All done!
>>
>> Of course, this won't work if you can't free up the space immediately
>> after
>> Drive C:. But IF the numbers fit, you need no software except what is in
>> Vista, and the whole project should take less than an hour. If you post
>> more details about the size and contents of each partition, maybe we can
>> help you work out a plan.
>>
>> RC
>>
>> "Avinash" <> wrote in message
>> news:774C1286-11C8-4E25-91DF-...
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I have Vista Home Premium.
>> > I have a 320G hard drive that has four partitions and I am running out
>> > of
>> > space on the C: drive . Can I combine one of my empty drives with the
>> > C:
>> > drive?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Avinash
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