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Merging partitions Win 7
CheBourgeoisNoir
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So I purchased a new Asus lappy a few months ago and it came from the factor with a C: "Operating System" partition with like 27 gigs on it, and a 
"Data" partition with the remaining 329 gigs. My problem is that I jumped right in installing Steam and Sc2 onto the C: without thinking about it, and I'm not concerned about about separate data partitions what with Win7 UAC permissions, and I don't want to deal with migrating all the games I have on C onto D (unless it's really not a big deal).
Question is, then, how do I go about merging my partition with my C: ? Or should I just start writing stuff to and not worry about it? Thanks guys
"Data" partition with the remaining 329 gigs. My problem is that I jumped right in installing Steam and Sc2 onto the C: without thinking about it, and I'm not concerned about about separate data partitions what with Win7 UAC permissions, and I don't want to deal with migrating all the games I have on C onto D (unless it's really not a big deal).Question is, then, how do I go about merging my
partition with my C: ? Or should I just start writing stuff to and not worry about it? Thanks guys CheBourgeoisNoir on
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from there you can delete the second partition and resize the c: to take up the excess space
it'll probably take quite a while
..... o.O what. You don't need to do anything complex like this.
IF you've got any data on the d drive partition, copy it off of there. If there's anything installed by the manufacturer, then things get trickier. I'm assuming not, for now.
Steps to fix this in a sane way:
1. Once the d drive is empty of stuff open "Computer Management" from the start menu. (just type it in, it's buried a few layers deep).
2. Once this opens, go to Storage -> Disk Management on the left hand side.
3. Once that brings up the partition management, look at (what is most likely going to be) Disk 0, and confirm that C-drive is on the left of D-drive, and there's nothing in between them (it won't matter if there's a partition on either side of the two, just if there's something in between like a hidden recovery partition)
4. Delete the d-drive partition (Right click on it in the map, then choose "Delete Volume" This deletes stuff. Don't do it until you're sure D-drive is empty!
5. Once the d volume is deleted, right click on the C-drive volume, and hit "Extend volume"
6. Make it use the entire volume of the disk, and sit back and enjoy life.
windows partition management has always been a pain for me compared to the simplicity of gparted, but i'm quite ready to believe it's gotten better