Suggestion. Do not try to move your partition until after performing an image backup. I tried this in the past with Win 8.1 and my disk signature changed resulting in failure to start Windows.
Ok if you are worried and don't feel right about trying to extend your c-drive partition, then don't. Makes me wonder why you shrank your partition in the 1st place. But, if you made a Complete Image Backup 1st, using something like Macrium Reflect 1st, saved it on a different drive, then you could play with re-sizing your c-drive partition, without ANY worries. Any changes to your partitions that someone wants to make, they should always make image backups 1st. Then it won't matter if it works or not, you just restore your computer back to the original state it was in. You just need to do these steps from a boot disk, or boot usb , I prefer using my dvd. bottom line if your nervous about these changes, don't do it. Your choice.
A piece I didn't see discussed here is that your "New Volume" shows as an actual formatted partition. If you were going to move C: over to the left (with MiniTool, for instance), you would need to delete the 800 MB partition first, creating unallocated space. It may be moot since you may not do it but I thought I'd just mention the missing step.
I have a little bit of CDO - that's just like OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) but the letters are in alphabetical order like they should be. That 800 MB empty space would be bugging me like a little child in the back seat on a long trip saying, "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? When are we going to get there? Are we there yet?" ;-)
and burned out light bulbs - and I deploy on ships with tens of thousands of fluorescent tubes.
I've put the volume back in the "E" drive for now.I have a little bit of CDO - that's just like OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) but the letters are in alphabetical order like they should be. That 800 MB empty space would be bugging me like a little child in the back seat on a long trip saying, "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? When are we going to get there? Are we there yet?" ;-)
and burned out light bulbs - and I deploy on ships with tens of thousands of fluorescent tubes.
Just seems like a waste inside the boot partition, even if it's only 1Gb.
Yup, it is a waste, mine are a lot smaller. But whatever makes you feel happy. :)
I've never had MiniTool Partition Wizard corrupt data yet on anything I have told it to do and I like to play around with my systems a lot. Shrink a partition, make a new partition to try something new, delete the test partition, expand the system partition back again. And I've always just install MiniTool Partition Wizard as a program in Windows and have never bothered booting from it. Partition Wizard just gives you a notification that it has to reboot to accomplish work on the system partition and when I reboot it does it's thing before rebooting back into Windows.
But there is always the possibility of an unforeseen event like a power loss, or more likely telling Partition Wizard to do the wrong thing.
With Partition Wizard it would have been just as easy to add the unallocated space to C: drive as it was to add it to E: drive. Just would have required a reboot and some more time.
Strange that I seem to agree with NavyLCDR a lot lately. He is right bty. Done the same thing myself a few times, only difference I do it from my MiniTool bootdisk, cause it makes ME feel comfy ... lol
Well I bit the bullet and gave it a go, just out of curiosity.
Did an image backup.
Opened disk manager and shrank back about 900Mb from "E" (boot partition)
Installed MiniTool partion and in under a minute, put the 900Mb into my "C" drive.
Thanks OldMike65!
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