How to add space to C drive to increase C drive size?

Cases to add space to C drive

"I have an 18GB disk drive that has been split into partitions: C: and D:. C: has about 4GB and D: has about 14GB. However, my C: drive is running out of space. How can I add space to C drive from D?"

"I am running windows 2000 server, the C: Drive is only a 4 GB partition and 60GB on its D: Drive. How can I add space to C drive so I can do Windows updates and install a program?"

"Well when I reformatted my computer I ended up making 2 partitions. I realized how useless the second one was so I deleted it. How can I now add space to C drive?"

There have been a number of questions about how to add space to C drive. Windows Vista, Windows 2008 or Windows 7 Disk Management can add space to C drive. But there must be continuous space behind C drive. Otherwise, you cannot increase C drive size with it, as Windows Vista, Windows 2008 or Windows 7 Disk Management cannot move partition to let continuous space behind the C drive which you want to extend. However, a magic partition manager, EaseUS Partition Master, can easily add more disk space for system partition to increase C drive size without data loss.

Magic partition manager - EaseUS Partition Master

As magic partition manager, EaseUS Partition Master can extend system partition, resize/move partition, convert partition, convert dynamic disk to basic disk, copy partition, copy disk, copy dynamic volume, split partition, merge partitions, etc. under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7/8 both 32 bit and 64 bit, with MBR and GPT disk supported. EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is free partition manager to add disk space to C drive for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8, both 32 bit and 64 bit Home users.

How to add space to C drive with EaseUS Partition Master?

EaseUS Partition Master can add space to C drive with simple operations by its "Resize/Move partition" feature. Want to extend system partition (C: drive)? Just follow the steps below.

Tips: We strongly recommend you backup data with free backup software before resizing partitions, because nothing is 100% secure.

Launch EaseUS Partition Master. When there is unallocated space behind the system partition (C: drive), you only need two steps to add space to system C drive partition:

• First, right click the system partition and choose "Resize/Move partition" to extend it.
• Second, apply all changes.

When there is no unallocated space behind the system C drive partition, you need to add one step before extend it. That is shrinking the partition behind C: to make unallocated space by using "Resize/Move partition". After this operation, you can use the method mentioned above to finish adding space to system partition safely.

Besides Partition Manager, EaseUS Partition Master provides Partition Recovery and Disk and Partition Copy features. It is a complete solution to solve your MBR and GPT disk and partition problems. Of course, EaseUS Partition Master provides different editions to different users, please refer to Edition Comparison.

 

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