I hope someone can help. Since upgrading to Windows 10 I have had to keep extending the primary partition, now up to 250Gb and full. I do have free capacity on another partition from which I have been taking spare capacity with any problems so far, but the partition tool won't let me take any more. Would appreciate any/all suggestions!
I prefer to use third party software to defragment and compress the data, it's then easier to expand the C: partition, the other option is to backup the data in other data partitions, then either shrink or delete the data partition then expand the C: partition accordingly.
I use ssd drives and just have the OS drive as single C: partition.
After the upgrade, you'd need to do some cleanup to remove all the remnants. Open Admin Command prompt, copy and paste the line below to run:
%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
Put a check mark on everything except "Setup Log Files"
To answer your question. Please post a screen shot of Disk Management
Hi @all, I got the same problem like Joywald and I would like to recover my 20GBs. Here is what I have.
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- Download Bootable Partition Manger | MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Edition and use Rufus - Create bootable USB to create a bootable USB.
- Boot your PC with the USB
- Right Click on the 794MB partition -> Move/Resize. A windows will popup, click and hold then drag this partition to the right.
- Next, move the mouse cursor on the right edge of C Drive until you see 2 vertical Bars, click and drag to the right to extend it. Click OK
- Click on "Apply" on the top left to commit the change.
- Remove the USB and Reboot your PC
Can you boot from CD/DVD. If so then burn to a CD/DVD then boot. If not then you need to download and install the free version of Minitool:
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then follow the step above. Once click "Apply". The PC will reboot and commit the change offline.
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