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I want to add unallocated space to my primary drive. how can i do that?

Anonymous
2009-12-22T11:15:48+00:00

original title: Merging Unallocated space!

I want to add unallocated space to my primary drive. how can i do that?

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-12-23T05:27:44+00:00

    Hi, 

    Welcome to Microsoft Windows 7 Answers Forum!

    Follow these below steps to extend your primary partition.

    1. Right click on the partition (EX: C:\ ) you want to Extend into the now unallocated partition and click on Extend Volume.
    2. Click on Next for the Welcome to the Extend Volume Wizard window
    3. Select the amount of space in MB you want to use from the unallocated partition to use to Extend this partition
    4. If you want to make one partition again, then select all of the available space for that one disk. If there were other drives with free unallocated space, they would be shown under the Available selection.

    Note:  It is advised that you do not extend a volume on one disk with free space from another disk. If one of the drives has a hardware failure, then all the data on that partition (volume) will be deleted.

    1. Click on Next.
    2. Click on Finish in the Completing Extend window

    You will now see the Disk Management console with the new extended partition volume ready to be used.

    1. Close Computer Management.
    2. Click on Computer in the Start Menu and see your new Extened partition volume.

    Thanks and Regards:

    Suresh Kumar- Microsoft Support.    

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-01-30T19:56:46+00:00

    My situation is slightly different. Please note that "Free" space is not the same as "Unallocated" space.  I want to extend my C drive by deleting my D drive, which I have done using the Disk Management program. The space is now called "Free" and is to the right of the C Drive, where the D drive used to be. The Extend command  (right click on C drive) is greyed out. How do I extend the C drive?

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-18T19:44:28+00:00

    Hello.

    I need to merge my bootable C Drive with Unallocated Drive. I have tried all these steps mentioned, but still I'm unable to get the "Extend Volume" in Disk Management and I don't get the option to select Unallocated drive in both Easeus or Partition allocation software. Please HELP!! I have very less space in C Drive and I'm unable to install any software.

    Few software will install only on the C drive, hence I need to extend its size.

    Thanks in advance.

    Jairaj

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-18T17:48:05+00:00

    When I right click my C drive the option to extend is grayed out.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-29T12:36:21+00:00

    I have three drive..one containing system files , another d: unallocated and the lastone E: containg my files. I just wanted to merge D: and E:

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