Partition details (1 TB hard drive):
┌───────┬───────┬──────┬──────────┬────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Drive │ Total │ Free │ Free (%) │ Contents │
├───────┼───────┼──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤
│ C │ 93 │ 67 │ 72 │ Windows; few apps │
│ D │ 840 │ 374 │ 45 │ Docs, music, movies, portable apps │
└───────┴───────┴──────┴──────────┴────────────────────────────────────┘
Recently, I decided to have portable versions of almost all the applications I use. So, that resulted in a lot of free space in C drive, and I'm thinking of shriking it to make D drive bigger.
Can I be 100% sure that it'll be safe to expand the D partition (which doesn't contain system files) by shrinking C partition and moving the start of D?
Will it affect the portable apps I'm using?
D:
toC:
you won't need to change your partition structure, and you may achieve better performance if it's a hard drive, because of reduced head movement when launching an application. Just make sure that you include the portable apps in your back-up schedule. Personally, I wouldn't be happy with a Windows install partition much under 100GB, especially on Windows 10. There's more than one way to make use of your freed space onC:
.D:
. I've avoided placing them in C because recently, I've had to do clean install of OS multiple times. Would it affect the hard drive in the long run if I continue keeping the apps in the D drive?C:
, but that of course has separate heads, so there is no performance issue,