Re-partitioning without Formatting

[Arthur]

By the way, to get more space on system partition, clean up the disk. For disk, r-click > Properties > Disk Cleanup. Make sure to also Clean up system files. Can usually free up quite a few gigs.

 

[SpoonTech]

Thanks for the responses, I will try this, but I think I should back up all my data first just in case!
I have in the meantime disabled hibernation to give me 1.5GB extra working s

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.

How much does a 128GB SSD cost nowdays?

I wander if SSD's will become more popular due to the floods causing havoc with HDD production.
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/hardware/36854-hard-drive-prices-in-sa-spike.html

@shovenose

Btw why are you using a partition for Linux. A Vm will do fine for it

The idea of me using linux is to enjoy a non-microsoft product on its own. It seems to run a lot better than on VM, and in cases like now when my windows is going horribly slow, I can boot into ubuntu and it feels like I have a new PC. Also, when Windows wont launch, I can still use Ubuntu, and then sort out problems in Windows. I use Linux about 30% of the time now, this would be much higher if there was a decent Office Alternative. There are so many formatting issues with LibreOffice and it feels like using Office 2000.

 

[shovenose]

If you want more space right click on recycle bin set the slider to 3 percent and disable recycle bin on the other partitions. Do the same with system restore set it to 3 percent. 12 percent is way to much.