Windows 10: Drive E showing the correct storage space drive C should have

Why is drive E showing the storage space that drive C should have, and how do I fix this?

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extend c drive storage space

Hi, I'm , an Independent Advisor.

Disk Management is a Windows built-in tool that supports to increase partition size with its "Extend Volume" feature. However, the program has some limitations in increasing disk space:

- Extend Volume only works on NTFS and RAW partition. FAT32 and other file systems are not supported.

- The Extend Volume will grey out if there is no adjacent unallocated space behind the target partition.

So, the ways to increasing C drive with or without adjacent unallocated space are different. Open the Disk Management, and follow the right tutorials listed below to extend the local disk C drive on your own now:

#1. Increase C Drive Space with Adjacent Unallocated Space

Step 1. Right-click This PC/My Computer, click "Manage", select "Disk Management" under Storage.

Step 2. Locate and right-click on the local disk C drive, and choose "Extend Volume".

Step 3. Set and add more space to your system C drive and click "Next" to continue.

Step 4. Click "Finish" to complete the process.

Note that if that unallocated space on your system disk is not behind the C drive, you can't extend C drive in Disk Management.

Hope this helps. Let me know if I can help you further!

 

Storage space in Drive C

How do you increase the storage space in Drive C?

I have added a new disk to my laptop creating an extra drive.

 

Storage Spaces Disappears After Replacing Boot Drive

My Win 10 Pro system has eight physical disks: one boot drive, one CD-ROM, and six HDDs in a Storage Spaces array. Everything works fine.

The boot drive was getting full, so I replaced it with another drive with twice the capacity. Both drives are SSDs, and I "cloned" the old disk to the new using Macrium Reflect 7 software. The new drive boots Windows just fine, but it never recognizes the Storage Spaces drive array. It shows it as one empty drive with 0 bytes used, the correct drive letter (E:\), the correct capacity (approx. 10TB), but no name assigned to it.

Windows Device Manager says E: is RAW, not ReFS or even NTFS.

Windows Task Manger's Performance tab shows that disk E: is 90% busy all the time. It's all read transactions, no writes. I've let this run for almost 24 hours and it's still 90% busy, and Windows still doesn't recognize the Storage Spaces array or its contents.

When I shut down and re-install the original boot drive, everything goes back to normal. Drive E: is once again recognized as a 10TB Storage Spaces array and all of its contents are valid. Swapping back again to the replacement boot drive repeats the above behavior.

Any suggestions?

Windows 10 Pro
Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.685)