1492
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As mentioned, very easy and fairly quick to resize a partition. There are a couple of excellent freeware Partition Tools available Free EaseUS Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition and Partition Manager 11 Free Edition.
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J-mans Dad
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Might try CCleaner first.
It's amazing how much "stuff" can bloat your drive. This gets rid of all the leftover stuff you never see and never know its there but takes up space. Gets rid of temp files, cookies etc.
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vwsportbug wrote:I'm pretty much computer illiterate so would need some pretty detailed directions if this can be done. Can anyone help? If you were truly illiterate you wouldn't have asked this kind of question!
As suggested, a much easier solution is to either clean it up or move stuff off to D. And then figure out why your drive C is hoarding stuff.
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It should take you just a few minutes to resize your hard drive partitions. No more complicated than dragging a few sliders. Here is an animation using the freeware EaseUS Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition:
- First, click to highlight the D: partition.
- Grab the left edge handle with your mouse, and slide to the right to reduce of the D: partition equal to the amount of free space you need for your C: partition.
- Next, click to highlight the C: partition.
- Grab the right edge handle, and move all the way to the right edge of your D: partition.
- Click "Apply," then "Yes" in the confirmation popup.
- Finally, click "OK."
You're done! 
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You should not need to resize your drive. If your C drive is changing, it is likely due to programs, pictures and videos which can be easily moved. It can also improve the efficiency of your Operating System operation by having more free space to operate.
Open 2 windows in My Computer or Explorer. Drag your images, videos and PDF files from your C drive to appropriately named directories on your D Drive.
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Open a My Computer window. Go to the top right corner and enter just a single star * and hit enter.
This will display every file on your C drive. Sort by Largest and check for duplicates. Delete from the most unlikely folder.
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I have done this using EaseUS, and it works perfectly.
I have win7/64, and I believe there is a shortcoming in the afore-mentioned OS repartitioning in Windows 7. IIRC, Win7 will not overwrite a removed partition if it was above the partition you want to expand in the hierarchy. Win7 will expand outward (down) but not inward (up). EaseUS will do either.
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wittmeba wrote:You should not need to resize your drive. If your C drive is changing, it is likely due to programs, pictures and videos which can be easily moved. It can also improve the efficiency of your Operating System operation by having more free space to operate.
Open 2 windows in My Computer or Explorer. Drag your images, videos and PDF files from your C drive to appropriately named directories on your D Drive.
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Another idea:
Open a My Computer window. Go to the top right corner and enter just a single star * and hit enter.
This will display every file on your C drive. Sort by Largest and check for duplicates. Delete from the most unlikely folder.
Remember that when you drag and drop between drives (on a Windows system) you are making a copy in the target drive. You will then need to go back to the C and delete copied files.
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Before repartitioning, you could try using a free utility like TreeSize to find the obvious space hogs. You may just need to delete some old folders.
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Kiwi_too wrote:Remember that when you drag and drop between drives (on a Windows system) you are making a copy in the target drive. You will then need to go back to the C and delete copied files.
Thanks for the reminder.
To the OP. Right click and select "Move". Then you wont need to go back to delete.
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Bucky Badger
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1492 wrote:.
It should take you just a few minutes to resize your hard drive partitions. No more complicated than dragging a few sliders. Here is an animation using the freeware EaseUS Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition:
- First, click to highlight the D: partition.
- Grab the left edge handle with your mouse, and slide to the right to reduce of the D: partition equal to the amount of free space you need for your C: partition.
- Next, click to highlight the C: partition.
- Grab the right edge handle, and move all the way to the right edge of your D: partition.
- Click "Apply," then "Yes" in the confirmation popup.
- Finally, click "OK."
You're done!
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