XPS 8930, extend SSD to HDD?

I've been working on expanding various drives so I can move things off of my desktop (ie SS drive) I have two added drives of my own, plus the two it came with: SSd and the 2 TB drive). The 2TB drive it came with allowed me to delete it then create a partition. However when I try to "expand" that partition (made it a bit too small) I'm getting a message about switching from basic to dynamic.

I'm not well versed in this stuff... so I want to make sure that this 2TB drive it came with has nothing to do with my SS drive. Here is a screen shot from Computer Management.

Disk 3 is my SS drive and disk 0 is the 2 TB that came with it.  

Thanks!

Nancy

All those partitions you created on Disk-1 are surely incorrect. What a mess. :Surprise: Looks like maybe someone was creating Partitions instead of Folders?

Half of Disk-0 is un-Partitioned, and it's even at the front (both strange and unusual) . 

First, your 2 TB (Disk 0) has a large unallocated partition in front of a partition labeled Home VideoPhoto Work (H: drvie). You can only extend (not "expand") a partition into unallocated space if the unallocated space is behind the partition you wish to extend. To fix this, you could copy all your data on H: to V: (Disk 2) (if you have the space on V:) then delete volume H: and then re-partition Disk 0 to make one large partition. A word of warning, if you do delete volume H:, I am not sure what will happen to all the drive letters after H, if they will remain the same of move up one letter. Also there is a risk in changing drive letters, for example, programs may expect files to be on M: that are now on L:.

As for Disk 1, I am not sure why you wanted to create all those small partitions except that perhaps you wanted drive letters assigned for specific types of data in each volume. I can't think of any advantage of this versus having a large partition and using folders to store your different types of data.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to do a bit of reading up on this stuff before I do any major changes just to make sure I don't mess anything up. I had no idea the allocated space needed to be in FRONT of the partition I wanted to expand. 

I know I have a lot of partitions... I've just always done that for some reason as I manage a bunch of different things and wanted them all to have their own "drive" so to speak. I may need to rethink that.

I appreciate all the help and info!

Nancy Ü

Instead of saying "the allocated space needed to be in FRONT of the partition I wanted to expand" I would say the partition you wish to extend needs to extend into unallocated space at the end of the partition. Usually when you create a partition the unallocated space is the space that is left, the amount of the unallocated space is the difference between the size of the disk drive and the size of the partition. It appears with your Disk 0 you must have created two volumes in two partitions and deleted the first volume and therefore the space became unallocated.

Managing different things the way you did has, in my opinion, at least one major disadvantage. If the thing you are managing runs out of space in your "drive" it would be difficult to expand the space. Folders are a much better way to manage and organize different things.

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@nancygail wrote:

1. I'm going to do a bit of reading up on this stuff 

2. I know I have a lot of partitions... I've just always done that for some reason

3. as I manage a bunch of different things and wanted them all to have their own "drive" so to speak. I may need to rethink that.

 

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1. I certainly hope so.

Actually, you have plenty of disk-space, but it's either not being used, or it's improperly allocated.

2. Just wanted you to know it is an incorrect practice. For one, it causes problems like you have now.

3. This is un-necessary. Using Folders is the correct way to keep files separate (between clients, projects, etc.) .