Upgrading to windows 10?

[Roan_Smeets]

Hey guys, I was hoping you could give me some help.

I want to upgrade someone's pc to Windows 10 (using the free accessibility upgrade) but there's one problem, The drive in the system is some weird ~180GB disk, but it was fragmented in a 60GB and 120GB part. Windows 7 is on the 60GB part but it's filling up real bad, is there any way to merge the drives together and put windows 8 on the complete 180GB or is there a way where I can put in a new 1 or 2TB HDD without me having the product key for windows 7?

[Zonther]

Do you know which OS was installed first?

[Roan_Smeets]

It's a pc with windows 7

 

[Jonathan Lemmens]

7 minutes ago, Roan_Smeets said:

Hey guys, I was hoping you could give me some help.

I want to upgrade someone's pc to Windows 10 (using the free accessibility upgrade) but there's one problem, The drive in the system is some weird ~180GB disk, but it was fragmented in a 60GB and 120GB part. Windows 7 is on the 60GB part but it's filling up real bad, is there any way to merge the drives together and put windows 8 on the complete 180GB or is there a way where I can put in a new 1 or 2TB HDD without me having the product key for windows 7?

If you're going to add another driver anyway, I would just do a clean windows 10 install on that one.

I don't think its possible to merge the 60GB and 120GB partitions without formatting them.

 

[Roan_Smeets]

9 minutes ago, Jonathan Lemmens said:

If you're going to add another driver anyway, I would just do a clean windows 10 install on that one.

I don't think its possible to merge the 60GB and 120GB partitions without formatting them.

 

Yeah, I was thinking the same, but if I completely copy the drive to another one, how do I go from there, because it won't be a C:\ anymore 

[Zonther]

9 minutes ago, Jonathan Lemmens said:

If you're going to add another driver anyway, I would just do a clean windows 10 install on that one.

I don't think its possible to merge the 60GB and 120GB partitions without formatting them.

 

Ya you are going to lose one or the other because you will have to remove the partition 

[Jonathan Lemmens]

2 minutes ago, Zonther said:

Ya you are going to lose one or the other because you will have to remove the partition 

Good point!

 

@OP you can delete the 120GB partition and then extend the 60GB partition to 180GB. This way, you'll only lose data on one of them and maintain the win 7 install.

[Roan_Smeets]

On 07/08/2017 at 0:58 PM, Jonathan Lemmens said:

Good point!

 

@OP you can delete the 120GB partition and then extend the 60GB partition to 180GB. This way, you'll only lose data on one of them and maintain the win 7 install.

If that works I'm going to be pleased