Extending the C: drive?

[Guest]

The title really captures the question well. I want to expand my C: drive

But Windows is a ass, what can I do?

[Guest]

3rd party app? 

What have you done so far? 

[DnFx91]

oh god, oh jesus

 

your partition layout

 

what have you done ?

[Jskn]

Gparted and Rufus. Use that if you have space

[DnFx91]

you've backed up your drive............ onto the same physical drive

 

fantastic

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

3rd party app? 

What have you done so far? 

I only tried this Windows tool, so I haven't done much. 

 

2 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

you've backed up your drive............ onto the same physical drive

 

fantastic

It was worth it, I needed a 64-Bit version of Window.

3 minutes ago, Jskn said:

Gparted and Rufus. Use that if you have space

Sure, my C partition is huge. I luckily already have Rufus. Thank, I'm going to try it after the download.

[DnFx91]

thats pretty funny, but seriously, you can boot partedmagic or any live linux distro that has gparted, use it to move the hilarious F partition to the right, and then expand C into the gap.

 

assuming you want that backup partition

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, DnFx91 said:

thats pretty funny, but seriously, you can boot partedmagic or any live linux distro that has gparted, use it to move the hilarious F partition to the right, and then expand C into the gap.

 

assuming you want that backup partition

you can do it from inside that window he has open. Why boot another tool? delete the backup partition and then extent it to fill the drive.

[Guest]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

you can do it from inside that window he has open. Why boot another tool? delete the backup partition and then extent it to fill the drive.

One problem, I would like to keep the backup partition.

[DnFx91]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

you can do it from inside that window he has open. Why boot another tool? delete the backup partition and then extent it to fill the drive.

as i said i assumed he wanted to keep that F partition. in which case i dont think windows lets you expand a partition if it doesnt have empty space directly following the partition you want to extent, in which case you would need to use gparted to "move" F to the end of the drive, so you could then extend C into the resulting middle space

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

you've backed up your drive............ onto the same physical drive

 

fantastic

I have a new signature quote.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

thats pretty funny, but seriously, you can boot partedmagic or any live linux distro that has gparted, use it to move the hilarious F partition to the right, and then expand C into the gap.

 

assuming you want that backup partition

Thank you for the explanation. Now that I think about it, this was the most hilarious thing I have ever done...

[DnFx91]

Just now, fpo said:

I have a new signature quote.

i would be honored 

[Guest]

Just now, fpo said:

I have a new signature quote.

 

Just now, DnFx91 said:

i would be honored 

You get a extra one. My mistake must be shared with the world.

[DnFx91]

Just now, Factory OC said:

Thank you for the explanation. Now that I think about it, this was the most hilarious thing I have ever done...

yeah ive done some stupid shit before man, but this is pretty good, it's up there

 

try gparted and keep us posted. if you expand C from gparted, windows might spazz out a bit and want to run a checkdisk, but do what u want and see how it goes

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

yeah ive done some stupid shit before man, but this is pretty good, it's up there

 

try gparted and keep us posted. if you expand C from gparted, windows might spazz out a bit and want to run a checkdisk, but do what u want and see how it goes

Sure, I wont freak out. I'm downloading it right now.

 

[DnFx91]

Just now, Factory OC said:

Sure, I wont freak out. 

 

make sure you backup that F partition (to an external drive this time lol) 

 

Gparted Giveth and Gparted Taketh Away

[Guest]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

make sure you backup that F partition (to an external drive this time lol) 

 

Gparted Giveth and Gparted Taketh Away

Sure, I will.

 

OH, OH NO! Now I am triggered 

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

Gparted Giveth and Gparted Taketh Away

HOLY CRAP THE CRINGE... Jk

[Guest]

@Factory OC

@DnFx91

 

[DnFx91]

3 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Sure, I will.

 

OH, OH NO! Now I am triggered 

HOLY CRAP THE CRINGE... Jk

it seemed fitting, I have a special level of Concentration that's reserved for when im using Gparted, as it's an every day occurence that i use it.

 

Destroying an installation is only ever one click away.

 

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, DnFx91 said:

yeah ive done some stupid shit before man, but this is pretty good, it's up there

 

try gparted and keep us posted. if you expand C from gparted, windows might spazz out a bit and want to run a checkdisk, but do what u want and see how it goes

You say that but for places like PC world here in the UK this is pretty much standard way of doing it. You windows recovery aka windows installer is stored on a partition on your c drive.

[Guest]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

it seemed fitting, I have a special level of Concentration that's reserved for when im using Gparted, as it's an every day occurence that i use it.

 

Destroying an installation is only ever one click away.

 

I would think, it looks like a powerful tool...

[Guest]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

You say that but for places like PC world here in the UK this is pretty much standard way of doing it. You windows recovery aka windows installer is stored on a partition on your c drive.

Yeah, I have the install files, but I'm not up for booting that up...

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, vorticalbox said:

You say that but for places like PC world here in the UK this is pretty much standard way of doing it. You windows recovery aka windows installer is stored on a partition on your c drive.

makes sense for OEM builds, but they are useless, speaking of recovery partitions, i once bought a brand new dell inspiron, years ago, and out of the box it had a drive letter assigned to my recovery partition, why ?? anyway i digress.

 

 

[Guest]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

makes sense for OEM builds, but they are useless, speaking of recovery partitions, i once bought a brand new dell inspiron, years ago, and out of the box it had a drive letter assigned to my recovery partition, why ?? anyway i digress.

 

 

OEM's are weird. I didn't even get a recovery partition from the factory on my Acer laptop...