Vista disk manager question?

Hey

I want to transfer some storage from my c drive to my media drive folder.

I was wondering how to do this in vista disc manager.

I have looked on a few sites, but microsoft makes it sound confusing and so do the rest.

I was wondering if anyone new an easy way of doing this.

So for eg. I have 100gb in my C/drive and want to move 50gb to my d/media drive.

And it is only one hard drive, so Im not sure if its called partitioning or what.

 

You mean you want to take 50GB of the total size of your C:\ and add it to the D:\ partition?

I prefer to use tools like Acronis Disk Director to do this with.
But do backup before you do ANY work on partitions like this. Nothing is 100% perfect and things can happen.

 

Hey

Thanks for that and I have already managed to remove 20gb from C drive with no problems But I can figure out how to put it on my D/media drive thats all.

Cant afford 50.00 to buy acronis when windows will do it for me.

Thanks again

 

trying to figure out the same thing here ..want to dual boot vista SP1 and Xp Sp3..any help will be great..just googling to see what i can come up with.

 

Yeh I managed to take 20gb away but cant for the life of me figure out how to put in on my media folder.

I guess this MS disk thing is a mystery to most people.

 

Nope it's no mystery. It can't do what you want. You can only increase the size of a partition by adding to the end of the partition. The 20gb you took from C: is now situated between the C: and D: partitions. The unpartitioned space needs to be AFTER the D: partition to use the Disk Management tool to add it to D:.

What you CAN do is copy the current contents of the D: partition to an external drive. Delete the D: partition, create a new D: partition with the larger size then copy you D: contents back.

Gary

 

Wow I really buggered that up by taking off that 20gb, I dont know if my external will handle my contents.

So move all contents from my media d drive then delete everything?

So just press delete yes, then go back into dick manager then creat a new file or can I just drop and drag?

And then if not drop and drag create new folder called d media drive and bunch them all together?

Thanks for the help.

 

No. You move everything from the D: partition to an external device or back it up to DVD's (or some combination of the two). Then you delete the D: partition using the Disk manager app. You are not deleting the files, you are deleting the partition. (Which, of course, also wipes out the files.)

This will create a contiguous unallocated space covering the 20 gb you took from the C: partition and the now unused space from the D: partition. Then you create a NEW D: partition, that is 20 gb bigger than it originally was, in that unused space. And finally you copy your D: content back from the external device and/or DVD.

Disk manager does NOT create or delete files or folders. It only creates, deletes and formats partitions. Period.

Gary