How to extend C drive on Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Are you looking for solutions for your small boot drive lacking space? Do you want to extend c drive to have a larger boot partition to make your computer run faster and can take more software installations? As we know many pc users wish to expand the boot drive without repartition or system reinstallation. How to make it true to extend the boot partition and keep the present system and files untouched? Be free to follow the guide to help you out of the partition size dilemma.

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Step by Step Guide to Extend C drive on Windows 2000/XP/Vista with Acronis DD

Suppose we have four partitions C: 10 gb, E: 40gb, F: 60gb G: 48gb. We need to redistribute the free space 10gb on F: to C:. We will shrink the F: to be 50gb and then move the unallocated 10gb next to C: drive and then we will extend the c drive with the unallocated 10gb.

Acronis offers the most stable and confidence while resizing the existing partitions. Acronis Disk Director Suite can resize, move, split, merge partitions without data loss. If you want to merge partitions, you can follow this tutorial: How to merge partitions to extend boot partition.

Here are the steps:

disk management before acronis pc

Run Acronis Disk Director Suite and choose the “Manual Mode”, the right click F: to resize

right click F to resize Acronis pc

Put the cursor to the left part of F: and prepare to drag F: to shrink.

drag F to shrink Acronis pc

Resize F to produce 10gb unallocated space and then click OK.

resize F to shrink to produce 10g unallocated space

Right click E to move.

right click E to move

Click unallocated space and then click “Next”to move E to the right part of the unallocated space.

click unallocated space to move

It will automatically move E to the right part of the unallocated space and then click OK.

move E to the right part of the unallocated space

We can see the unallocated space is next to the C partition.

unallocated space is next to C drive

Right click C: drive to claim the unallocated 10gb.

right click C to resize Acronis pc

Put the cursor to the right part of the C drive and prepare to claim the unallocated 10gb.

drag C to claim the unallocated 10g Acronis pc

Drag C to the end of the allocated space to extend boot partition and then click OK.

drag c to the end of the unallocated space Acronis pc

Click the flag to commit all the operations to extend the c drive.

click commit Acronis pc

Click “Proceed” to confirm all the operations.

proceed pending operations Acronis pc

Operations are completed.

operation completed

Check the extended C drive in disk management.

20gb C drive in disk management Acronis pc

Summary

Have you noticed that it even does not require booting to finish all the operations? All the operations were carried out so flawless with confidence. We care about all the safety issues about the software to your computer and we do recommend this program to extend your boot partition. Acronis DD Suite helps you manage your gigabytes of data fast and efficiently. Whether you need to extend/shrink/merge partitions, upgrade your hard drive, dual boot your computer with different operating systems, the Disk Director is the tool to make any byte management task faster and easier than ever before.

But --> Acronis Disk Director Suite is not supporting Windows 7 by now. We recommend other freeware like Partition Wizard Home to do the trick.

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