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Hi Nev I have just used this software to increase the size of my C: Partition. Worked with no problems at all. I created unallocated space from D: first and had it position it between C: and D: then merged C: into the unallocated space. Worked like a charm
I have had Easeus Partition Master for some years for XP. I haven't used it for Windows7 as yet. It is the best in the freebies IMO. Does what it is supposed to do.
I love this software. When I bought the SSD I used it to create the partitions and load an image I created with it on to the SSD. I highly recommend this.
Packard Bell/ Acer, and possibly other manufacturers are sending out new machines with the hard drive roughly split down the middle with the first partition as "C" and the second as "D" drives. Usually labeling "D" drive as "Data". Why they do this I don't know, but many folks who have bought a new machine recently have complained about it and quite rightly wonder if it means half of their drive is unuseable. Of course it isn't, you can choose to transfer all data into the "D" drive section if you wish and just leave "C" for programs and other general running day to day stuff. However Easeus is the tool to use to shrink the "D" drive, leaving unalocated space to then expand "C" into it. You can then leave a few GB space in "D" as somewhere to put a copy of those files you want to protect against accidental deletion. We all have some of them, photo's etc. Glad that a few of us like it, and use it. Nev.
I haven't had the need to do much partitioning because I have two internal hard drives in the computer case. Data is stored on the second one (D. However, I recently thought I'd install Linux Mint to see how it was when installed in its own partition on a hard disk. The installation procedure allowed me to set this up on the second drive. It automatically moved existing data and created a couple of extra partitions for Mint. One for the OS and software and another for the swap file. It also created its own dual-boot option. I decided not to keep Linux Mint in the end and removed it by using Windows Disk Management. I deleted the data on the two partitions that Mint had made, merged them into one and formatted it. This left two partitions on the second drive (D: and E. That was OK but I thought I'd merge them back into one partition again that took up the entire space of the drive. I decided to use Easus for this because I don't think Windows Disk Management wouldn't preserve any data during merging. However, Easus unfortunately got stuck at about a quarter of the way through the task. I had to abort with a hard reboot in the end. Nothing gained or lost because of it. Going in search of another program that might do the job, I came across 'Aomei Partition Assistant Home Edition'. This carried out the operation without a hitch, All my backups and created files came under the heading of 'D: Storage', which was how it was before I started. I thought all was well until I had occasion to re-image the C: drive with a disk image that was stored on the D: drive (made by Windows 7's own disk imaging function). Upon looking for the image, Windows couldn't find it. I think what might have happened is that the second drive had lost it's original volume number during the merging procedure. None of my disk images could be found by the re-imaging procedure, although the folders containing them were clearly there in Windows Explorer. All wasn't lost because I'd backed everything up to an external USB drive before doing any of the above and Windows imaging was able to 'see' images stored on that. So I used this image to restore the computer. Once that was done, it was possible to make an image on the second drive that Windows imaging can find and use when necessary. Getting rid of the dual-boot arrangement that Linux Mint put in place is another story. Regarding Easus's failure, to merge the partitions on the second disk, I wonder if it would have worked OK if I had chosen to merge D: (the partition containing my data) with E: (the empty partition), I didn't do this. It was done the other way round instead. The empty partition was was chosen for merging with the one with the data in it. I'm not sure if that would have caused the merging operation to hang or not. I didn't try it that way round with Aomei Partition Assistant to see if it would have been the same.