Let me start by saying that for a long time I used an old laptop with installed operating system Windows XP, there have never been any special problems, except for one and the main one! This is the laptop itself, which was weak and could not cope with most of the tasks I needed. It was decided to purchase a PC that would meet all modern requirements. Having allocated 50 GB for the operating system and installed “seven”, I thought that this space would be enough. But this was only for the time being.

Soon I noticed that it was decreasing free place on drive C, and it was absolutely no longer enough... After a while, I found a way to expand drive C at the expense of drive D on Windows 7, without losing any data and without using third party programs. The fact is that the system itself provides users with such an opportunity! We want to tell you about it!

We increase drive C at the expense of drive D without programs

In this article, you will learn how to increase the size of the system disk without reinstalling the system. BUT, you may encounter one problem that we will help you avoid!

If your system is Windows 7, then you need to go to the settings! Start -> My computer (right mouse button ) -> Control

After this, a new window will open called “Computer Management”. In the left column, you need to select "Disk Management". After which all disks on your PC will be displayed.

In order to enlarge drive C, you need to find free space, or, more precisely, pinch off free space from an adjacent drive. To do this, right-click (RMB) on Disk D, and compress the volume to the volume that needs to be increased. Let's say 1000 MB.

And now the problem itself!

An unallocated area of ​​1000 MB will appear, and logically we need to right-click on drive C and click “Extend volume”, but this option will not be available! Many people try to find answers on forums or somewhere else, but in most cases, they cannot cope with the problem on their own!

How to properly expand C drive

• Let's say you have two disks (C, D), determine how much information occupies on disk D (for example, the total volume is 800 GB, and 300 GB of space is occupied)
• You will need to delete volume D without losing data. How to do it? You need to expand it by more than 300 GB, turn the unallocated area that appears into volume G. Now you will have three disks (C, D, G)
• Copy all information from drive D to drive G.
• We delete volume D, after which an unallocated area of ​​500 GB will appear
• Expand drive C to the required volume, say 50 GB
• The remaining 450 GB are converted back into Disk D.

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Now let's take it in order!

1. We expand volume D, in my case by 360 GB, and an unallocated area of ​​351 GB appears. Please note that expansion takes 10-15 minutes.

2. Right-click (RMB) and select “Create simple volume”. Now go to “My Computer” and you will see 3 drives: C, D, G. To avoid losing all files, copy them to drive G.

3. Removing volume D

4. Now we can “expand volume” C by the required amount. As you can see, C has increased to 127.93 GB.

5. From the unallocated area we create volume D. You can leave everything as is, or return the PC to its previous form, that is, leave 2 disks: C and D. To do this, transfer back all the information from G to D. After which, delete volume G, and volume D is expanding.

The presented process will take time, but it will 100% protect you from data loss, and most importantly, you won’t need to study a bunch third party applications that could damage your HDD.

If you have any questions or encounter difficulties, write to me in the comments or in “ “.

Most often after purchasing a computer from a user. The store specialists do this specifically for our convenience. Usually one disk is for the operating system and its volume is about 30 gigabytes, and the second is for storing our personal files.

But it happens that space on one of the sections runs out. Especially if it is a disk on which Windows is installed and its volume is not so large. Installing various programs, over time there is little space left, and on system disk It is not advisable for everything to be packed. So in such a situation you just need increase disk partition, taking free space from another partition, the volume of which is much larger.

By the way, today we will just consider with you, how to increase hard drive, or as they say, increase the disk partition. To do this, we will use the Acronis Disk Director program, in some lessons we have already used it, and today it will help us again.

We launch the program and immediately see a window where all sections are displayed hard drive.

We can see the full size of the disk, as well as how much space is free. I have only 600 megabytes of memory left on the system drive (C:) and now I will increase this partition by another 2 gigabytes. Using my example, you will also learn how to increase hard drives.

So, right-click on the disk whose size you want to increase and select the item in the list that appears "Increase volume size".

The window that opens for settings is the most important. We need to choose the future size of the disk that we are increasing, and also choose from which disks we will “select” free space.

Place a check mark next to the items "Add unallocated space to volume" And "Take free space from other volumes". Now we choose what percentage of memory we will take for the disk section we are increasing. In point “Leave free space on volumes” we indicate, for example, 90 and then 10% of the memory will be taken from other disks for the current partition.

Next, when we have taken free space from other partitions, it needs to be added to the partition that we are increasing. To do this, opposite the “Volume Size” item, click on the top arrow. After everything is configured, click “OK”.

In the screenshot below you can see an approximate picture that you should have.

Now we can look at the hard drive partitions and see what we end up with.

But that’s not all, if everything suits us, we still need to perform this operation; to do this, press the button "Apply scheduled operations".

In the window that appears, we double-check everything again, as you can see in my case, 2 gigabytes will be taken from the drive (D:), and they will be added to the drive (C:). If everything is correct, then click the “Continue” button.

The computer will restart and at this time the entire operation will take place. enlarge hard drive. Depending on the volume by which you increase the disk partition, the operation can take several minutes or about an hour. So please be patient.

This concludes this lesson, I hope now you can easily enlarge hard drive using Acronis Disk Director. And if the free space is still quickly filled with various files, then you need to read my new article: . There I talked about all the effective hacks, using which you will free up gigabyte after gigabyte of space on your disk!

It so happened that when working at a computer, the user got used to having a hard drive divided into two partitions D:/ and C:/. Where on one the folder with the system is stored, and on the other they save various media files, such as photos, music, films, etc. But, sooner or later, everyone who works on the Windows operating system has probably encountered a situation where it was necessary to increase the size of drive C at the expense of drive D, due to lack of free space.

Usually, this disk fills up due to the fact that there is an overabundance of various programs and games installed on the computer. Also, this place fills at incredible speed if the user saves everything possible files only on the desktop. Another reason for filling up free space is temporary files from the Internet and . As a result, due to lack of space on the system partition, you will not be able to download anything from the Internet and will not even be able to run more than one program.

A few sentences below you will find detailed instructions About, how to enlarge drive C by using in various ways, starting from third party software and ending with the LiveCD, which I think many people already know about with . Of course, we will not forget to consider increasing the size of the C drive using the standard Windows utilities, entitled "".

Before we get started, I want to note some nuances.

• We will increase the size of drive C at the expense of drive D. Therefore, make sure that you have enough free space on local disk D:/;
• Unfortunately, you can increase the space on drive C using standard program disk management will not be possible without data loss, so be extremely careful so that you don’t have to do it manually later;
• All the tips that I will describe below apply to absolutely all major operating systems, Windows family (7/8/10 );

So we free up space on the disk, from which we will bite off a piece and proceed to the practical part of the instructions on how to increase disk C at the expense of D.

Increase disk space with Aomei Partition Assistant utility

The first we will use is a program that is distributed free of charge and will help us increase the size of the C drive directly from the Windows working environment. But, before you use it, of course, you need to download and install it on your computer. There is nothing to explain here, I think you will cope with this with a bang.

The main thing is that during the download process, do not forget to change the installed language to Russian.

Having launched the program, its interface should open in front of you, with various windows in which it will be displayed full information about the hard drive and all the partitions into which it is divided.

So, since we came here with the goal of increasing the size of disk C, taking the free space from D, we perform the following steps in order.

If you simply resize the disks and don't click the apply button at the end, you won't get the expected result. After completion, the computer will reboot several times and you will receive the additional space on the system disk that you specified earlier.

We increase the space on the system disk using Disk Director.

The next option is also not bad, but it is not entirely convenient, in that to implement it we will have to boot from it later.

You might ask, if it is so complex, why am I showing it? Hmm, there are actually a lot of reasons, for example, you need to increase the size of drive C at the expense of drive D, but when using various programs, a message constantly appears that the system cannot lock the drive to complete the operation. So, it is precisely in such cases that a LiveCD with the Disk Director program helps us out.

So, for those who don’t yet have such a disk, you can download the one that I use: Link. Next, just write it down on any disc, as a simple image and .

In the loaded LiveCD, find the Disk Director icon on the desktop and launch the program. An interface will appear that is very similar to the working environment of the program we discussed just above.

To increase the size of drive C, perform the following steps:

1. In the top panel, click on this icon, which will launch a window to increase free disk space;
2. In the dialog box that appears, select the partition to which we want to add free space and click “ Further»;
   
3. In the next step, we will need to select a partition through which we will add free space;
   
4. Next, the wizard to increase free space will ask you to use the slider to indicate the size of the partition to be expanded, in our case it is drive C. Having moved the slider as you need, click “ Further", to continue;
   
5. Before starting the process, the program will definitely show you the structure of the newly created partitions and ask you to press the “ Complete»;
   
6. Now, to apply all changes, click on the checkbox;
7. A list of operations that have been scheduled appears. Having familiarized yourself with them, click on “” to begin performing all the processes to increase the size of drive C;
8. The conversion will take a few minutes, although the procedure itself may take even an hour depending on the size of the hard drive;
   
9. After the program has finished running, reboot the computer and check whether Disk Director has completed its task;

Maybe this method is not the most convenient due to the fact that you need to create new disk, but it is not more effective for me than others, and will always help out in situations where programs from the system’s working environment simply cannot cope.

Increase space on drive C using Disk Management

And finally, as I promised, let’s look at how you can increase drive C at the expense of drive D using Windows’ own resources. Those who decided to use this method, I hope you haven’t forgotten that it has one rather serious drawback: when the partition is enlarged, your personal data will be deleted from the disk “ D" Therefore, I recommend this option Use only on new machines and clean hard drives.

If you still intend to use this particular method, then call up the window “ Execute» by clicking « Windows+R" and execute the command there .

The window of the utility we need will open, which will display all the drives that are connected to the computer. There, separately, you will see your partitions C and D, and several hidden boot sectors, by the way, which I recommend not touching under any circumstances, so that you don’t have to restore the system later.

Now, having selected the section with the letter D, right-click on it and click “”. Performing this action will delete both the disk itself and k and all the data stored on it, therefore, do not forget to save it somewhere else, for example on a flash drive.

In the next step, go to drive C and call in the same way context menu, but this time we select “ Expand volume..." A window will appear where you will need to specify the size of the free space to be added. All the space that we freed up by deleting drive D will immediately be displayed, but since we don’t want to take everything, we only indicate a small part of the number we need, for example 4000MB.

Attention!!! If the disk you want to enlarge has a button “ Extend volume", I recommend using the first or second option.

By increasing the size of disk C at the expense of D, we return our donor back to normal. To do this, right-click on the unallocated space and select the first line “ Create a simple volume"and then follow the instructions, which he recommends utility. The volume letter will be formatted and assigned, after which you will be able to use it as before.

In this article I did not try to show you different programs that do the same thing, here I wanted to tell you about three methods that can help you in completely different situations. For example, you can use the first option during normal system operation, the second in case of some kind of breakdown, and the third in the case of a new computer, you don’t have to download anything, but can quickly do everything using “Disk Management”, spending only 5 minutes.

How to enlarge drive C at the expense of drive D in Windows 7, 8.1, 10

It often happens that one hard drive runs out of space, but another has plenty of it. Usually you run out of space on drive C, because... Initially, the least amount of memory is allocated for it when installing the OS. So what is the solution in this situation?

Let's look at two absolutely safe methods.

Method No. 1

If you have Windows 7 or 8 operating system on your PC, then everything is as easy as shelling pears for you. You can use the standard Disk Management utility, which is used to change and view hard disk partitions.

Method No. 2

If you are still “sitting” on XP or, even worse, on Vista, then in this case you need special programs. Personally, I advise - Acronis Disk Director or Partition Magic.

Now let's go through each method in more detail.

In the first case, the procedure is as follows:

Right-click (right mouse button) on the Computer icon on the desktop and go to Management in the context menu. A window opens, find and launch the utility - Disk Management.

Next, let’s assume the most common case, when we “expand” drive C at the expense of drive D. To do this, find drive D in the window, right-click and select - Shrink volume. A window will open where you will need to specify the size of memory that we want to transfer to the system disk. We drive it in the item - Size of compressed space (MB).

After this, a free memory area will appear on our hard drive, which we can transfer to any other drive, in our case, drive C. To do this, then right-click on it and select - Expand volume. The Volume Expansion Wizard will open. In its window, select the volume to be expanded (disk) and the amount of space to be added, click next and voila - after a short wait we get drive C with an increased amount of memory. Well, after such manipulations with the hard drive, be sure to restart the computer.

The second method should not scare you; in fact, it is even simpler. The only thing you first need to download and install the Acronis Disk Director program on your computer. I recommend it, as it has great functionality and allows you to do backups OS and hard drives and many other disk operations. But more on that later. In the meantime, we are interested in enlarging the C drive at the expense of the D drive.

After installation, we launch the program, a fairly clear program interface opens, which displays all the disks of our PC. To enlarge drive C, click on it and select in “Operations” - Resize volume. After that, in the new window that opens, check the boxes next to the items - Add unallocated space to volume and Take free space from other disks. In the window with percentages, we select how much space we want to borrow from other drives. After all the changes, click OK. After this, as in the first case, the system will ask you to reboot for the changes to take effect.

In both cases, you will get the same result and will no longer worry about running out of space on your drives.

I hope my article was useful to you and will help you when you need it!

Don't know how to find out the storage capacity? Is the Windows operating system warning you that there is not enough free space? Let's look at how to expand drive C on a computer.

OS Vista and 7 often confuse their users, because no one understands where the storage space goes over time. The system begins to take up more and more disk space, then a significant decrease in PC performance is observed. Especially on machines with a small amount of RAM (1-2 GB).

Because there is not enough disk space, the system tries to use a smaller buffer virtual memory, and when it is not enough, the devices begin to “slow down” and may not even start. With a careful approach, it is quite possible to find free space even on a very busy PC, for example, by increasing the C drive at the expense of the D drive, and this is quite possible, both with third-party tools and in the standard way on Windows Vista and newer systems.

During work, especially over a long period of time, users notice that the free space on the system partition is constantly decreasing. The history of updates can tell you where space on your hard drive disappears.

Microsoft's OS, which is constantly updated, is the most cluttered system partition. In addition to system garbage, browsers such as Opera, Google Chrome, - they constantly receive auto updates, which is why there is less and less free space, and besides, these programs themselves are rather large, occupying 300-500 MB. You also need to add to them the volume of downloaded files in the “Downloads” section (also located on the C drive).

Temporary files after watching movies online (they are loaded onto the HDD when watching). After all this, it’s no wonder that memory gradually disappears. Especially if the hard drive is broken up so that there is only enough space left for the system volume (for Vista and newer it is 20 GB, and for XP and older it is 1.5 GB). Over time, there may not be enough space.

In addition, repeated installation of games and programs also takes its place of honor in the top sources of system disk clutter. But how can you ensure that there is always enough memory?

How to increase the size of the system volume

On Windows Vista and newer versions, the question of how to move memory from drive D to drive C is not difficult. It can be easily solved using standard system tools. Just go to “Start” - “Control Panel” - “System and Security” - “Administration” - “Computer Management” - “Disk Management”. A window will appear in front of you, showing all the partitions of the drive, even hidden and unsupported ones (for example, from Linux). Above you can see the whole process in more detail by watching the video.

Remember, before increasing the space on drive C at the expense of drive D and others, it is advisable to save important data on external drives (in the cloud, on a flash drive, external hard drive, or by burning it to DVD). First, you should free up space on drive D. To do this, select this drive in the window and LMB call up the pop-up menu, where you select the “Shrink volume” command. It will help you “transfer” memory to drive C as quickly as possible. A window will appear in which there will be only one editable partition; in it, indicate by what size you want to reduce the disk. After setting the value, wait for the operation to complete. Next, go to drive C, highlight it, select “Extend volume” and in the window indicate the value obtained from the previous operation.

Alternatives

In addition to the standard method, you can use third-party programs that will show you how to enlarge drive C at the expense of drive D in the optimal way. The most popular program is Acronis Disk Director Suite. Has the free space on the HDD decreased significantly? Install the program on your PC; if there is not enough space in the system partition, install it on D or in other partitions where there is space. Launch it and select in the window that opens auto mode work. Next, in the next window, select the “Increase disk space” section. A window will appear with a list of disks, select the one that requires the most free space, and click “Next”. After this, the volume from which free space will be taken is selected. In the program, you can even select several sections, and not just one, as in the standard utility.

In a new window that appears, the program will ask you to specify the size of free space to move to drive C. You can manually specify the size or move the slider. Then click “Next” and “Finish”. Once on the initial window, the program will save the changes. In older versions of the utility, you need to reboot the device. In addition, I cannot help but note that the program is paid.

Standard method or Acronis?

If you are interested in how to redistribute space on the hard drive of a computer running Vista and newer, it is easier to use standard tools. For legacy systems, there are no options other than third-party programs, of which Acronis is the best. This paid program, which in free trial versions does not have full functionality and will not help you increase the size of the disk where the system is installed.

In addition to moving data, Acronis can also expand the volume, create backups, free data, and even test for errors. When the system partition takes up too much space, optimization is mandatory. But before the operation, save the data.

To free up free space, you can erase the partition, especially without much experience in setting up a PC. Don't forget about basic caution. If in doubt, you should double-check the Acronis program management information, otherwise the changes will be irreversible.

Significant freeing up of space is also possible with the “mechanical” deletion of the contents of the TEMP folder; it is located at C:\Windows\Temp.

Freeing up free space

If you have a catastrophic decrease in space on drive C, then you can stop the process by clearing all folders of temporary files and performing cleaning using standard system utilities. To get started, go to “Start” - “Control Panel” - “System and Security” - “Administration” - “Free up disk space”, in the window that appears, select drive C. The system will clean it, and if it’s Windows disk 7 or newer OS, the user will be able to even choose which files he wants to delete: temporary ones from the Internet, OS update files, other temporary data.

In this way, you can significantly free up space on your PC hard drive. If these procedures have not been performed for a long time (or never at all, and the computer has been used for several years), then the procedure will significantly increase the performance of the PC, since garbage is mixed with system files takes up all the free space on the drive.

Since drive C can only be enlarged at the expense of other partitions, the procedure with small-capacity old-style eMMC drives becomes meaningless. They had 8 or 16 GB and, as a rule, were not partitioned. To increase free space, all they have to do is clean it.

Free up space on Windows 10

The newest version of "windows", unlike the old ones, can itself free up space on the system partition. So, if the unallocated space on the disk is 0 MB, the system will issue a warning and offer a deep cleaning of unnecessary files.

Unlike the "seven", on Win10 you no longer need to think about how to increase the size of the C drive, because after installation and deployment the system takes up to 8 GB on the 32-bit version and 12 GB on the 64-bit version. Naturally, after installing updates, disk space gradually disappears, but not as quickly and aggressively as on Win7. In addition, automatic cleaning effectively removes old versions of the OS and simply unnecessary temporary files.

If you are interested in the question of how to increase space on drive C under operating Windows system 10, then in this version you can expand the volume by analogy with older OSes. In the system search menu, enter “panel”, the system will find “Control Panel”, then the algorithm is similar to that described above.

You can manually find space on drive C by following the path: “Start” - “Settings” - “System” - “Storage” - “Disk C” - “Temporary files”. Here you can delete the Temporary Files folder, as well as the Trash and Downloads.

Working on small drives

When a low-capacity 60 GB or 32 GB SSD is installed on a laptop or netbook, there is a catastrophic lack of memory. In this case, the problem of free space is extremely relevant for you. As a result, the question of how to increase the amount of free space becomes a priority. Typically, computing systems are built not only with SSD drives, but also from several (desktop PC) or one HDD (laptops).

If this is the case for you, then you can simply move part installed programs to a magnetic storage device. You will lose a little performance of programs, but you will free the system disk from unnecessary information. Although the hard drive is slower, the system will have free space to work with.

When the system has lost disk space, the only way to get it back is to clear garbage, temporary files and move some programs to another partition or even disk. This advice is especially relevant for fans computer games. Due to the large size of modern toys, the capacity of cheap SSDs is sorely lacking. Using such a drive, you must know how to free up space in partition C and periodically perform the cleaning procedure.

How not to break your laptop

If the free space on partition C disappears literally before your eyes, then most likely this means one thing - your system is intensively receiving updates. They are the ones who can “clog” the device’s permanent memory. When users have a question about what to do, there is only one answer - clean the system partition (C) from debris. It is in it that the remains of updates, flash download files, and auto-update programs accumulate. As soon as disk space begins to decrease, you need to take action - clean the computer from unnecessary programs and files, perhaps even transfer some of the free space from other partitions to the system one.

How to increase memory is discussed above. Never attempt to deal with memory expansion issues without Reserve copy, especially if you do not have sufficient knowledge. Otherwise, you can make files that are important to you disappear without the possibility of restoring them. Before changing the volume, try clearing it unnecessary programs. Or replace them with less resource-intensive ones (for example, Word 2003 costs hundreds of megabytes, and Word 2016 requires gigabytes to install).