re-partition my drives

im trying to give my c drive more space because when i bought this computer(sony vaio) it automatically defaulted all the programs and other stuff i added to the c drive & my c drive is only 13.9 gig. Now i only have about 500mb left on it & my computer runs soo slow. My D drive has 115 gig left on it and i want to partition it. i didnt learn until i only had 1 gig left to start putting programs on the D drive. My question is..i tried to make a media recovery kit just in case... and when it gets to the final disk theres always an error. Since im adding space to the C drive does that mean that all the info on the C drive will remain? Im just worried about losing my pictures or other things i need if i re-partition the drives but...i need to do this because my computer is soo slow because of no room. Any help would b greatly appreciated. THANKS:confused

 

i use EASEUS partition manager to tinker with partition sizes:
http://majorgeeks.com/EASEUS_Partition_Manager_Home_Edition__d6006.html

 

Do i run the risk of losing my pics or other stuff i cant replace?

 

i wouldn't think so, but as with any tinkering of a hard drive, i would back up the most crucial.. You can always burn cds or dvds of the most important stuff

 

Sorry...just 1 more question. I have acquired copies of design programs(illustrator, photoshop, etc.) that i dont have anymore. after i add the space to my C drive, do i have an option to keep those programs in tact or do i have to re-install all my programs? thanks again..:confused

 

if all works just fine, you won't have to do anything, what you will need to do is resize your d: drive and make it smaller (as long as theres enough room) and then resize c: drive to get the additional space you just freed up. this can all be done without losing or changing anything installed on the drives...however, like i said earlier , there's always a freakish chance that during the resizing something could happen

 

sorry to be bothering you again but why is all of where there is supposed to be writing is in little boxes to where i dont know what im clicking on? Something im doing wrong?

 

Is this in Easeus? Did you mean you the program is not displaying in English?

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Just to make sure--do you have one Hard Drive in your machine with two partitions C: and D: ? I'm asking because it is unusual to have such a small C: drive unless it was formatted by a user rather than the manufacturer. I want to make sure you don't have two HDs.

 

i dont know... how do i find that out? in "my computer"....is has my c drive with 13.9g & a separate D drive with 125g. Any certain way i can tell or is that enough info?

 

Right-click My Computer on the desktop and select Manage. In the left pane select Disk Management. Now, look in the bottom right pane and see if you have just a Disk 0 with two partitions C: and D: or a Disk 0 and a Disk 1 each with one partition.

It probably is just one Disk but it just seems odd that the C: drive is so small when you have so much space on D:.

 

says "disk 0"...6.1gb ntfs & in the next box it says (c13.97gb & the next box says (d129.07gb. hope this helps.:confused

 

Easeus will do it. I just wanted to make sure that all the space was on the same HD so that a partition manager would work in your situation.

The first part would be to shrink down the D: partition. Why don't you see how that goes before resizing the C: partition to make sure you are comfortable with the software.

Basically all you do is open the Easeus program highlight the D: drive by clicking it and then select Move/Resize from the list on the left. In the window that opens you want to drag the arrow on the far left of the yellow box to the right and watch the "Unallocated space Before" box until the number reaches the amount of space you will eventually transfer to C: drive. In your case you could easily free up 15 to 60 GB (15,000 to 60,000mb). When satisfied click OK. Then click Apply in the main Easeus window. You will just be removing free space from D: and marking it unallocated so not much trouble you can get into.

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If that goes well you would just restart the program and resize C: by adding the unallocated space to it.

 

The problem im still having is that up top where is should say "general, view, disk, partitions etc(in EASEUS) its all just little boxes so i dont know what its supposed to say. i already took 50gig from my D drive & is now located in allocated space i just cant read enough to see how to add it to my C drive. i even deleted the program & re-downloaded it & its still doing the same thing(THE LITTLE BOXES):confused

 

When you originally posted about the little boxes I thought that was what you meant. My only solution was to re-install the program but you have already done that.:confused

You may be ok without actually using the words at the top of the window. The trick is to make sure that you have unallocated space next to your C: drive. In the graph for the whole disk do you now have unallocated space between C: and D:? [It is a limitation of Easeus free version that the unallocated space has to be next to the drive you want to increase the space on].

If you do than right-click c: and click move/resize, in the new window you should have 50gb of "unallocated space after". Next to Partition size you should be able to use the up arrow to increase the partition size and subsequently the "unallocated space after" should go down until you reach zero. Then OK and Apply. [If this doesn't work than you would have to use the drag arrows on the graph to change the sizes (light gray is just free space and won't move, dark gray is unallocated space and should decrease as you drag the yellow bar into it, thus increasing the size of the yellow bar--The numbers in the bottom pane should verify your changes to the graph].

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If you have any doubts because of font problems don't take any chances. If the problem is only on the File Menu (general, view, partitions) and you can read text in the right-click context menu than you will probably be fine.