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Curt:
The disadvantage about having (too) many programs is, that you ("I") keep forgetting about some of them when I need them! All I had to do was to open my Easeus Partition Manager and delete the unwanted partition, re-size the  other, and reboot. Everything seems to be in order, now. :-)



 :)

kyrathaba:
I, too, need help to alter partitions.  Since my need seems very much in line with this post, I thought I should post here, rather than start a separate topic of very similar content.

I have a single hard drive in my laptop.  Per the screenshot below, you can see I have 40 Mb of unallocated space.  Can someone give me some help using either "Partition Wizard" or "Easeus Partition" to return the 40 Mb of unallocated space to drive C.

4wd:
First things first: perform a full HDD backup using imaging software.  Here's a list of some free ones if you haven't any: Free Hard Disk Backup/Restore & Imaging/Cloning Utilities

Step-by-step instructions for Easeus are here.  What you're doing is Case 2 followed by Case 3 for the Recovery partition, then just Case 2 for the C: partition.

Recovery partition:
1) Resize, (increase), the Recovery partition by dragging its left side as far left as it will go, (take note of how much free space it says to the left before resizing),
2) Resize, (decrease), the Recovery partition by dragging its right side 40MB to the left, (or actually the amount you noted in the previous step).

This will 'move' the unallocated 40MB between the Recovery and C: partition, so now:
3) Resize, (increase), the C: partition by dragging its left side as far left as it will go.

This will incorporate the unallocated space into C:, at this point click Apply to accept and perform the changes.

Just a note: In their examples they are extending or reducing the partitions in the opposite directions you want.

Then Reboot to test if it works.

MilesAhead:
For 40 MB of disk space I wouldn't touch it. It could be your bios setup program or some other booting program in a hidden partition.  If it was 40 GB that's another matter. :)

Carol Haynes:
Can I simply move "Curt" (incl Documents, Music, etcetera) to another partition?
Will Vista automatically understand and remember this?
-Curt (December 02, 2008, 07:43 AM)
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No you can't because Curt cotains all the details of your user profile. You will be able to move a lot of it but it will leave you in a mess.

What you can (and should) do is to move all the user folders (Documents, Music etc.) to your second hard disk.

You can do this automatically by changing the location of the folder in folder properties - right click on the folder and use the options to move it.

The only problems you may encounter are:


* Any files open/in use at the time won't be moved
* Any programs with specific folder locations set up in their settings (eg. iTunes) will need to be told where the folder has moved to.
You can move the whole profile folder but it is a bit of registry editing - so I would personally avoid it and it doesn't achieve much anyway.

As for your hard disk being full when it shouldn't be have you tried turning off system protection and then turning it on again (used to be called System Restore). This can use up vast amounts of space without you knowing about it - especially in Vista and 7 where it doesn't only store lots of restore points but also store rollback versions of user files. Turning it off removes all the rollback and restore data.

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