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heavyness
10-14-2009, 03:55 AM
Long story short, I have my C: (os) and D: (apps) on the same physical hard drive and i need to extend my C: drive.

So, can I move everything off the D: onto another physical hard drive, extend C:, then copy everything back to D: and have everything still work? My D: drive are a bunch of graphic, media, and other random applications.

This is just a quick fix until Win7 is released (and I wipe my whole box) and I don't want to use 'Junction' to "directory symbolic links, where a directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the compute" because I have to many apps accessing my C: drive for temp files (even though I moved my temp directions to another physical hard drive).

thanks in advance.
olson
10-14-2009, 05:03 AM
What you are asking is possible. What operating system are you using right now? If its Windows Vista then you can change the size of partitions with the built in disk management module. If its Windows XP or older then you'll have to use a third party tool like Partition Magic (which is commercial) or something Gparted form a live Linux disc (which is open source). Backup anything you can't afford to lose just in case things go wrong. Cheers!
heavyness
10-15-2009, 10:09 PM
sorry, yeah, using Vista.

So I couldn't just change the partition (shrink D: and extend the free space to C:) because the extra space wouldn't be right next to C: drive (when extending partitions, they have to be next to each other).

So I booted into Safe Mode, moved all my apps from the D: drive to another physical drive, shrank/extended what I need on the C: drive, then moved everything back to the D:

Rebooted and all apps (3d, 2d, games, etc) work fine.
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