Re-partitioning without Formatting

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When I formatted to start fresh with my windows, I decided to have a 150GB partition for Storage and a 50GB portion for Windows, and another for Ubuntu. My 50GB portion is now full, and I am finding less and less things I can move off it. My Windows has now become painfully slow, has shifted my swap file to my storage drive. Is there a tried and tested way I can merge these partitions, without formatting. I really don't feel like formatting now, as I am about to get a new computer, and doing two full software re-installs in a month I will go insane.

If not, does anyone know of good third party (freeware, open source) software that I can use to find large files on my system. The windows search has become crap, even if I re-index everything!
 
I haven't read past the thread subject, but can already say that you'll find comprehensive threads about this by doing a basic search of the forums.
 
Do you know that every partition is 10 percent slower than the one before them? What you can do is to move the data to once partition then resize move another amount resize just keep doing that till it the size you wanted. Btw why are you using a partition for Linux. A Vm will do fine for it
 
If it's win 7 - right click my computer > select manage > disk management > right click on any partition in the diagram > go mad shrinking, expanding and deleting your partitions.
 
Defrag the windows partition, back up all data on all partitions and use gparted to shrink, move & resize partitions.
 
Grouter said:
If it's win 7 - right click my computer > select manage > disk management > right click on any partition in the diagram > go mad shrinking, expanding and deleting your partitions.
Click to expand...
Not as easy as it sounds.

If your partition looks like this (figures just proportion of space):

C --- D --- E---

C=60gig (Windows files and apps)
D=35gig (Stuff you want to store like movies)
E=5gig (System reserved)

then you can't expand D any further with the Windows control panel software, but you can do it to C.

The trick is to start with C and then give D a huge amount of space (more than you need). That way you can expand C into D territory as much as you need to, when it becomes necessary.
 
I've shrunk & extended volumes (partitions) under Windows 2008 many times.
Works like a charm.

Never tried it under Windows 7 but I imagine it'll be the same.

In order to extend a partition you must have space on the adjoining partition.

(Obviously both volumes must exist on the same disk)
 
Lounger said:
Not as easy as it sounds.

If your partition looks like this (figures just proportion of space):

C --- D --- E---

C=60gig (Windows files and apps)
D=35gig (Stuff you want to store like movies)
E=5gig (System reserved)

then you can't expand D any further with the Windows control panel software, but you can do it to C.

The trick is to start with C and then give D a huge amount of space (more than you need). That way you can expand C into D territory as much as you need to, when it becomes necessary.
Click to expand...

Yes. You can only expand into a contiguous partition that has enough space, not from c to e if d is in the way and full.

Edit: Kinda what bubbatentoe said...
 
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Great thread guys, had a similar issue, and partitionwizard sorted it out :-)
 
Grouter said:
Yes. You can only expand into a contiguous partition that has enough space, not from c to e if d is in the way and full.

Edit: Kinda what bubbatentoe said...
Click to expand...
No.
Windows 7.
C must be after D in order to expand D.
D must follow C in order to expand C.

You can use other programs, but be careful. The free version of Paragon tries to install some other cr*p!
 
This is getting unnecessarily confusing. Just get a couple of nice big new 2 Tb drives and be done with it. And slap windows on an SSD. :)
 
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