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How to extend windows partitions, and how to solve C: partition extension issue [duplicate]

The C: drive needs more storage space on my system drive. When I take some space from D: drive, the space out is a free space, the space needed is unallocated space to merge it into C: drive. how can ...
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Can't extend C partition with unallocated space. Due to a recovery partition is next to C drive [duplicate]

I just upgraded my laptop with a 2TB ssd by cloning the old 256G SSD. However I found the C drive volume can not be extended due to a "Recovery partition" is standing in between the ...
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How can I increase my shrink volume on C drive?

My C drive has 37.7 GB free and I wanted to unallocate 30 GB to house my Linux root. But on disk manager, I couldn't seem to shrink beyond 304 MB. So I followed the Solution 1 in this link to deal ...
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extending disk partition with other partitions in the way

I want to extend my C drive partition after upgrading it, but the 2 partitions have partitions in between them. I'm not sure how to extend it and the extend button is grayed out.
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size on disk is too less than actual size

Thıs was happened when someone tried to transfer photos from his mobile device to my computer. Every single file is taking 13GB of size, and literally 8kb on disk I am using Windows 10 and have an ...
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Just cloned a 128GB SSD into a 256GB SSD, extended the partition, but Windows keeps saying it's 128GB

I wanted to upgrade my 128GB SSD in my Windows laptop into a 256GB, so I: Removed the 128GB SSD and connected it to a desktop computer running Linux Connected the new 256GB SSD to the same computer ...
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How can I move disk space to drive :C with ssd card from :D with regular hard drive?

I am left with 2GB free space on drive C and over 800 GB free on drive D. How can I change that and bring more space to C or combine C and D ? What I have been trying so far: 1) Combining C and D ...
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64GB SSD, 20GB visible, HPA disabled

I have a 64GB OCZ Agility 4 SSD that only shows 20GB available. My first thought was HPA was enabled, so I fired up hdparm only to learn that HPA is disabled. root@PartedMagic:~# hdparm -N /dev/sdb ...
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I barely have free space in the system partition but I should have much more (Windows 8.1)

At work I have a computer with two hard drives, a 60 GB SSD as the system partition and a 300GB HDD as a data partition. The SSD is almost full or at least that's what I can see in the disk manager ...
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Spanning volume disk usage [duplicate]

I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood. Will the first disk ...
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Defrag SSD when partioning the drive

I've been wondering if it changed anything to defrag an SSD drive in order to move all the used clusters "in front" and keep the ones "in the back" open for, for example, partioning the hard drive ...
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