Resize a Hard Drive from within Windows 7

This screencast takes a look at how to extend the size of your computers C partition using the tools within Microsoft's Windows 7.

Extending the size of your C drive or any partition in your computer is a relatively straight forward process but it dose have its draw back.

A Windows partition can only be extended in to its neighbouring partition which must be an unallocated space. This means that if the drive you are thinking of making larger has a neighbour that is in use that drive will have to be deleted!

The only way round this if you are using Windows 7 to extend your drive is to back-up all the data on the neighbouring drive then delete it, extend C then replace your date, that's the draw back.

Once all your data is safely taken care of the rest of the task is easy as this screencast will show.

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[shortcarlos123]

this helped me alot...thnx !

[diypcrepairs]

@shortcarlos123

Glad it helped ;)

[IANT68]

Thanks very much! Worked perfectly :0)

[007Nikam]

how can i use some memory of other drive not full

[DBO7455]

i shrunk about a 200gig on the C drive and boom! all the drives are now DYNAMIC.... is there any manual way of reverting it back to basic without losing any data? and how does it affect the system if it is dynamic?

[harrysanger19]

i cant open extend volume?????

[mikehan57]

the extended volume is not highlighted even though there an unallocated memory what do you think is the problem

[TheC0rpsezilla]

Thank you sir!

[schimpfkevin]

you rock 

[iCravethis]

Instead of Unallocated drive it said Free space. I still can't extend.

[AranHiwa]

it not open extend i dont why