I need to expand my C partition

[cobleman]

In the time its taken you to say BULLSHIT you cant do it . I have created 2 partitions shrunk 1 and extended C: :-P
And i deleted both again and turned it back to normal

 

[AlanJohn]

As long as the partition you want to take the size from comes AFTER C and you're not dualbooting it shouldn't be possible to fuck things up with GParted unless you either try or there's a power outage during writing to disk.

Now this is something I fear of. I live in a 3rd world country, and power-outages happen very often, I hope nothing bad happens D:
Also I am dualbooting my PC with Ubunto, which is installed on E. Maybe there is some kind of way to change disk partitions with it?

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[Arras]

As long as the partition you want to take the size from comes AFTER C and you're not dualbooting it shouldn't be possible to fuck things up with GParted unless you either try or there's a power outage during writing to disk.

Now this is something I fear of. I live in a 3rd world country, and power-outages happen very often, I hope nothing bad happens D:
Also I am dualbooting my PC with Ubunto, which is installed on E. Maybe there is some kind of way to change disk partitions with it?

Um. If you're dualbooting you need to make sure the Ubuntu partition stays in the same place or you'll have to reinstall GRUB. That means you can't move the start of that partition or your PC won't boot. (It's not THAT hard to reinstall GRUB but something you probably don't want to deal with) Also the writing to disk when moving partitions can take a LONG time, it took me about 30 minutes to move a 20GB partition 2GB to the right.
EDIT: Wait, did you install Ubuntu with Wubi? In that case this might not apply to you... although I'm not sure.

 

[redfalcon]

As long as the partition you want to take the size from comes AFTER C and you're not dualbooting it shouldn't be possible to fuck things up with GParted unless you either try or there's a power outage during writing to disk.

gParted doesn't care if it is "C" or "E". These are Windows-specific drive letters. It depends on unallocated space on the physical disk.

 

[Arras]

As long as the partition you want to take the size from comes AFTER C and you're not dualbooting it shouldn't be possible to fuck things up with GParted unless you either try or there's a power outage during writing to disk.

gParted doesn't care if it is "C" or "E". These are Windows-specific drive letters. It depends on unallocated space on the physical disk.

gParted doesn't care but Windows does and not being able to boot is not a good thing in my opinion. Let's say C is on /dev/sda2 that means you can't move that partition around or the bootloader won't be able to find Windows anymore.

 

[AlanJohn]

As long as the partition you want to take the size from comes AFTER C and you're not dualbooting it shouldn't be possible to fuck things up with GParted unless you either try or there's a power outage during writing to disk.

Now this is something I fear of. I live in a 3rd world country, and power-outages happen very often, I hope nothing bad happens D:
Also I am dualbooting my PC with Ubunto, which is installed on E. Maybe there is some kind of way to change disk partitions with it?

Um. If you're dualbooting you need to make sure the Ubuntu partition stays in the same place or you'll have to reinstall GRUB. That means you can't move the start of that partition or your PC won't boot. (It's not THAT hard to reinstall GRUB but something you probably don't want to deal with) Also the writing to disk when moving partitions can take a LONG time, it took me about 30 minutes to move a 20GB partition 2GB to the right.
EDIT: Wait, did you install Ubuntu with Wubi? In that case this might not apply to you... although I'm not sure.

Yes I used Wubi.

 

[redfalcon]

As long as the partition you want to take the size from comes AFTER C and you're not dualbooting it shouldn't be possible to fuck things up with GParted unless you either try or there's a power outage during writing to disk.

gParted doesn't care if it is "C" or "E". These are Windows-specific drive letters. It depends on unallocated space on the physical disk.

gParted doesn't care but Windows does and not being able to boot is not a good thing in my opinion.

That's what I'm saying the whole time. gParted disregards drive letters and he might end with his system partition on a different drive letter (which isn't even the worst case), that is why I don't recommend messing with NTFS partitions via Unix unless you know exactly what you're doing and how to recover in case you mess up.

 

[AlanJohn]

OK, I'm currently searching in my room for a spare CD to burn Gparted.
Will update.

 

[Arras]

As long as the partition you want to take the size from comes AFTER C and you're not dualbooting it shouldn't be possible to fuck things up with GParted unless you either try or there's a power outage during writing to disk.

gParted doesn't care if it is "C" or "E". These are Windows-specific drive letters. It depends on unallocated space on the physical disk.

gParted doesn't care but Windows does and not being able to boot is not a good thing in my opinion.

That's what I'm saying the whole time. gParted disregards drive letters and he might end with his system partition on a different drive letter (which isn't even the worst case), that is why I don't recommend messing with NTFS partitions via Unix unless you know exactly what you're doing and how to recover in case you mess up.

And that's why I'm making sure he's not planning to move the main partition. If he doesn't, everything will be fine.

 

[Jamstruth]

Why do you have 2 different Data partitions?
Best idea I can see without moving partitions is to uninstall everything on C and reinstall it on D.

For Partitions use Easeus. If you try to shrink/expand the system drive it will make a marker and reboot into a mode where it can. You need to do the following:
1. Shrink your E Drive from the right hand side by 10-20GB.
2. Move the D and E partitions to the right so there are no gaps in the extended partition.
3. Shrink the Extended Partition from the left so there is a gap between C and the extended partition (this will be the 10-20GB of unpartitioned space you created when shrinking your E drive.
4. Apply all of this. There is a chance of data corrupting or deleting so make sure you have some kind of backup.
5. Expand the C partition from the right to fill the empty space you made and apply. It will ask to reboot your computer to apply. Do this and it will make the changes.

Edit: Didn't realise you had Ubuntu installed on the E drive. You can do the same using gParted but you'll have to do it from a Live Disk (which you will have from Ubuntu install). There won't be any need to reboot.

 

[Arras]

Why do you have 2 different Data partitions?
Best idea I can see without moving partitions is to uninstall everything on C and reinstall it on D.

For Partitions use Easeus. If you try to shrink/expand the system drive it will make a marker and reboot into a mode where it can. You need to do the following:
1. Shrink your E Drive from the right hand side by 10-20GB.
2. Move the D and E partitions to the right so there are no gaps in the extended partition.
3. Shrink the Extended Partition from the left so there is a gap between C and the extended partition (this will be the 10-20GB of unpartitioned space you created when shrinking your E drive.
4. Apply all of this. There is a chance of data corrupting or deleting so make sure you have some kind of backup.
5. Expand the C partition from the right to fill the empty space you made and apply. It will ask to reboot your computer to apply. Do this and it will make the changes.

Edit: Didn't realise you had Ubuntu installed on the E drive. You can do the same using gParted but you'll have to do it from a Live Disk (which you will have from Ubuntu install). There won't be any need to reboot.

There's just one issue: move the E partition and Ubuntu might break. I'm not sure how a Wubi install handles this, but a normal install would become unusable.

 

[Jamstruth]

Oh its a Wubi install... that doesn't use GRUB to boot if I remember rightly. Using Easeus and moving it should be fine. I think it'll rely on the drive ID and location in the filesystem then since its just a file within the NTFS drive

 

[gumgod]

If that's all the partitions you have, you can use a program like GParted (download and burn the LiveCD, Ubuntu has it installed as well if you have a CD of that) to:
-Shrink E (for example)
-Shrink the Logic Partition containing D and E
-Move the Logical Partition to the right
-Grow C

I recommend you delete some stuff from D and/or E first though. You pretty much NEED 10GB free on C to have Windows running properly.

Gparted is the easiest way to do this in my opinion, and included on ubuntu live disks. Arras knows what he's talking about. Here's a tutorial:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/