My laptops hardrive is split into drive C vista and drive E data which have a roughly equal share of 55gb each......i want to load up a bmw diagnostic program that is 25gb but it needs to go into drive C which has 6gb free...... How do i make drive C's portion of the hardrive bigger?? Any help will be appreciated
Try 1. Right click on Mycomputer 2. click manage 3. Click on Device Manager 4. Right click on E drive and click reduce. Reduce it by 30gb 5. Right click on C drive and click expand. expand it by the sam amount you reduced the other. Hopefully this shoould work.. If it Doesen't sorry this was written from memory.. Goodluck..
Thanks but it doesn't work......1,2,3 are fine but 4 doesn't exist?? If i go storage, disk management then it will allow me to 'shrink volume' on drive e so i have enough unallocated space but i can't then 'expand volume' to drive c?? Any thoughts?
Right click on Computer: Click Manage This should appear. Now click on disk Management. As you can see.. You can now see all your Partitions i only have one main one unlike your two. Now right click on partition E E drive Click on Shrink Volume... You will have to wait for your computer to sort out much it can shift.. Then this will appear.. Select how much you want to reduce your drive by and thats that done.. Now right click on your primary drive C Drive And select expand And expand by the same amount.. That should do it..
Thanks for the info........I do all of that but 'expand volume' is grey'd out when I right click on drive c after shrinking volume from drive e
when i did this i used partion magic it was less of a ball ache than doing it with windows mind you that was with xp as rocco2litre said if it is not working the way Willowraf has posted you need to use cmd in the run box and by the way Willowraf is right this is the way to do it it is just windows is shhhhhhit and dont work some times
Does it have to loaded on the C drive? Whats wrong with installing it on the other drive? -it should prompt you where you wish to install the program, defaulting to C drive, just change the letter to the drive with space.
the download instructions for the bmw software state that it needs to go to drive c as does the emulator etc etc, i pressume that the three programs that are used to get it up and running are all looking on drive c for one another?? I have put it onto drive e and it doesn't work
have a look in the link below the only way to expand the system partition it in vista is if you have next contiguous unallocated space ie try "Delete Volume" in your case e drive and see if you can expand then http://www.walkernews.net/2008/12/01/how-to-extend-windows-vista-system-partition/
cheers mushy......i cant delete to the recycle bin or move the odd files from drive e to my western digital my book to delete volume e This is a freakin nightmare......if i buy a larger hard drive then i guess i'll need to reinstal vista etc etc??
If you buy a new drive, you can use disc image software to copy the drive contents over, the size of the new drive can be bigger. Take a look at Acronis True image they do have a free trial. Ideally, you would remove your existing laptop drive & temporarily install it into a desktop, run the image software creating the back up on either the desktops hard drive or burnt to DVD's. swap over the for the new drive & load on the disc image -no need to re-install vista & your old drive is left intact. Quite convoluted & there may be issues with the lap top drives connections and the desktop -that is unless they are both SATA
or you could get a 1tb external hard drive i have one the same as the link below its not as handy as usb powered one but dose the job then you could just back up you e drive do what you need to do then copy it back even if you go for the bigger hard drive it would still come in handy for backing up you data http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002E7HEVU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299445302&sr=8-1
Sorted, i deleted out just enough from C to copy E into C and then formatted E to delete the odd files, then i deleted E's volume and then extended that volume into C.. Thanks for everyones help, much appreciated
