Windows 10: How do I expand my "C" drive with a new created volume?

A piece I didn't see discussed here is that your "New Volume" shows as an actual formatted partition. If you were going to move C: over to the left (with MiniTool, for instance), you would need to delete the 800 MB partition first, creating unallocated space. It may be moot since you may not do it but I thought I'd just mention the missing step.

 

I have a little bit of CDO - that's just like OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) but the letters are in alphabetical order like they should be. That 800 MB empty space would be bugging me like a little child in the back seat on a long trip saying, "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? When are we going to get there? Are we there yet?" ;-)

and burned out light bulbs - and I deploy on ships with tens of thousands of fluorescent tubes.

 

I've put the volume back in the "E" drive for now.
Just seems like a waste inside the boot partition, even if it's only 1Gb.

 

Yup, it is a waste, mine are a lot smaller. But whatever makes you feel happy. *Smile

 

I've never had MiniTool Partition Wizard corrupt data yet on anything I have told it to do and I like to play around with my systems a lot. Shrink a partition, make a new partition to try something new, delete the test partition, expand the system partition back again. And I've always just install MiniTool Partition Wizard as a program in Windows and have never bothered booting from it. Partition Wizard just gives you a notification that it has to reboot to accomplish work on the system partition and when I reboot it does it's thing before rebooting back into Windows.

But there is always the possibility of an unforeseen event like a power loss, or more likely telling Partition Wizard to do the wrong thing.

With Partition Wizard it would have been just as easy to add the unallocated space to C: drive as it was to add it to E: drive. Just would have required a reboot and some more time.

 

Strange that I seem to agree with NavyLCDR a lot lately. He is right bty. Done the same thing myself a few times, only difference I do it from my MiniTool bootdisk, cause it makes ME feel comfy ... lol

 

Well I bit the bullet and gave it a go, just out of curiosity.
Did an image backup.
Opened disk manager and shrank back about 900Mb from "E" (boot partition)
Installed MiniTool partion and in under a minute, put the 900Mb into my "C" drive.
Thanks OldMike65!
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After

 

Well DONE sir!!!!!!!! Whats the fun of having a computer if we don't play with the settings, and tweak our computers!! Besides whatever program or OS made that 2 gig partition was wrong!!! Mine is 450mgs and windows 10 made it, from a fresh install. Also made 2 other partitions besides my primary, which still don't come to 1 gig combined! glad you decided to "bite the bullet" again, Good Job!! *Thumbs*Thumbs

 

Thanks again OldMike65, I've learnt a couple of things in this post, and the Minitool partition is a handy little program to keep.
*Smile

 

And wipe out your entire operating system a couple of times in the process or at the very least get the "no operating system found" message.