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Insprion Laptop - C Drive close to full
Have 3 year old Dell Inspiron, hard drive set up from factory on 320 gig drive - C 60 gig - D has remainder of allocated space. Am I going to have to reformat and reload everything, not finding any information that I can delete patition and expand C drive.
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Mary G
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March 25th, 2013 14:00
I'm surprised you have not done that already. I did it on my Inspiron with the same dumb partitioning. Just boot to the windows 7 disk, select custom install and then Drive Options (or something like that) then delete the D partition and following the directions to install windows on the C partition which will expand to include the unallocated space--formerly D.
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March 25th, 2013 14:00
Since you have to go to custom install I take it that all your programs have to be installed? Thanks for your response Mary. jwayne810
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July 8th, 2013 14:00
Thanks for the advice. I had the same problem as many others with the small C drive and large partitioned D drive and I wanted to expand on the advice for others having this problem. Since I don't think I really need the D drive partition, this is what I did: backed up and then deleted everything from the D drive (which wasn't much since everything is set to automatically save under C drive), right-clicked on Computer in the Windows main menu, selected Manage, and then Disk Management. From there, I highlighted the D drive box at the bottom of the screen, right-clicked and deleted the D drive, then right-clicked and deleted the partition of the free space from the former D drive. Finally, I highlighted the C drive box, right-clicked, and selected Extend Volume. After choosing to extend C drive to include the full free disk space, my C drive now contains almost ~600 GB of storage instead of the previous ~60GB. So far so good, although I am not an IT person so would welcome feedback from any pros out there. It wasn't too hard but is EXTREMELY annoying that anyone, especially a novice, has to bother with this in the first place. Anyways, hope this helps someone going forward.