Macrium Reflect 8 Update Discussion

camelia said:

Now I have 177.67GB of Unallocated space, when I don't need not to waste HDD capacity AND only 10GB Or 20GB of Unallocated space, but I do not have idea How to.

You should be able to use Disk Management to extend your C: partition to use some or all of the unallocated space.

Extend Volume or Partition in Windows 10

Just because the unallocated space is there now due to it being a larger drive, I would not just jump in and extend the C:. It is quite large as is. Being a spinner (assumed), once you extend C: with the full unallocated space, you may not be able to undo that step.

As I said before, we need to see the free space on C:

IronZorg89 said:

Not questioning what you advanced in your statement, but just for my own knowledge why can't one undo the step to recreate the unallocated space if need be?.

A spinner, HDD, may put data on sectors at the tail end or anywhere on that extension of space, and shrinking a partition on an HDD can only occur up to the last empty sector. SSDs don't seem to react that way due to methods. I'm probably not fully explaining it, but that's the gist.


edit: I think it can be done with 3rd party tools such as MiniTool, but very time consuming. Definitely not with Disk Management under the circumstances I outlined.

IronZorg89 said:

... I don't know for Disk Management where there could be some limitations...

Yes, it's limitation is that Disk Management doesn't move used sectors if they're in the way, while other tools can and do. For an HDD defragmenting before attempting to shrink a partition can increase the amount DM can shrink it by.

We're getting way OT, but by example, on an HDD, even after defragmentation and cleaning, if just a tiny portion is left with occupied sectors, it will be impossible to extend C:, even if there is still 170+GB unallocated. Space must be contiguous.

illustration only.....

camelia said:

500GB TOSHIBA is an spinning disk too

Thanks
Camelia

You can... right click C: and choose: Extend partition ...and add the 177 GB unallocated to C:

Or, you can right click the 177 GB unallocated and choose: New Simple Volume ...and make a D: drive.








You can do either of these things....