Recovery Partition Size

Hi, I recently purchased a Toshiba L650-12k laptop.

I know that most laptops when purchased allow for the user to set the size of the recovery partition, but in this case, I was not given the option to do so.

Under My Computer, there are 2 "hard disc drives" one disk C, the other disk D, However, both are 148GB in size, and I was not given any option to resize this when I first setup the laptop.

I am wondering if its possible to change the size of the D partition, and transfer this free space to the C drive partition, as this is a massive amount of space being used by the D drive.

I came across this link, but I'm not 100% sure if this method applies to this situation. Furthermore, having a read of the comments on this page shows that some users were unable to extent the space of the reduced size partition onto the other one.

Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7 or Vista - How-To Geek

I hope I have made myself clear, and any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Click start, and type in computer management, when it comes up, click on it. Once that opens, click the option on the left side that says disk management. Right click on the drive you want to shrink, and there will be shrink option. Just tell it how much. Then right click on the drive you want to add it to and select extend volume. It will have the part you took off the other available to add.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. I just want to make sure that I can add space to one partition of which I took it off from the other partition, as in, take of say 100GB from D and add this onto C, can you confirm this is what I can do?

I was reading something about how if you attempt to add space, then the box is "grayed out", but I'm not sure.

 

Yes, you can add 100GB to C. If it doesn't work, you can just put it back to D.

 

thanks for your help, I'll try it out now

 

Ok, I removed 100GB from partition D but it didn't let me extend partition C so I had to add it back onto D.

Is there anyway I can add this space onto D?

 

You could delete partition D and then it should let you add all of it.

 

Use this and you can do whatever you want in your partitions.It's free it's very good and it's easy...

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

 

thanks for the link, but I'm runnin on a 64bit system, which is incompatible. Is there anything else similar for free?

 

Try Partition Wizard. It runs also in Windows 64 Bit.

BEST FREE Partition Manager Software for Windows supports all 32-bit & 64 bit Windows No-server OS.

 

Thanks, I was able to successfully change the size!