How to shrink the system partition

Anyone got a hand?

I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to IBM stuff. I need to shrink my C drive. It's huge, and I'm running out of room on D. Anyone know how to pull this off?

Thanks!

You’re probably still running Windows 7, aren't you?
Look, if you want to stay even remotely current with how things work these days, my honest recommendation would be to check out Hiren
. But hey, if that sounds like a bit much for you to tackle on your own, just hand the machine over to a professional and let someone else handle the heavy lifting for you. 🙂

William Barrett9 said:You’re probably still running Windows 7, aren't you?
Look, if you want to stay even remotely current with how things work these days, my honest recommendation would be to check out Hiren
. But hey, if that sounds like a bit much for you to tackle on your own, just hand the machine over to a professional and let someone else handle the heavy lifting for you. 🙂

exactly..sorry, forgot to mention..I'm using Windows 7..so downloading that software shouldn't be an issue, right? And I definitely need to back up my C: drive to an external hard drive just in case??

Exactly. You’ve got to grab all those essential files—your emails, photos, documents, software, everything you can't afford to lose—and back them up to an external hard drive first.
After that, just download Hiren’s BootCD, burn it onto a disc to make it bootable, and fire it up. Once you're in, you'll find Partition Magic in there. From there, you can just resize your system and data partitions as needed.
And that’s pretty much the whole game.🙂

Why make things so much harder than they need to be by messing around with a Hiren's Boot CD? Honestly, just grab EaseUS Partition Master, install it, resize those partitions, and you're all set.

http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Part...-10863346.html

Fine... but I want to shrink the system (C🙂 drive... I'm backing everything up to an external hard drive anyway??

Amanda Barrett40 said:Fine... but I want to shrink the system (C🙂 drive... I'm backing everything up to an external hard drive anyway??

Absolutely.

Honestly, just grab any decent utility, like MiniTool or even some old-school Partition Magic, and once you've got it open, just click on the partition you’re trying to beef up—which in your case is the D: drive—then hit that resize command and just snatch whatever space you need from the C: drive.

I mean, you don't strictly *need* to back everything up, though I guess you can if you're feeling extra cautious about it? Usually, the only thing that might glitch during these kinds of moves is the MFT, but honestly, those programs can fix that kind of stuff in like two clicks.

Thanks a lot, everyone!!

Cheers!