Windows 10: How to increase or move the system partition to another partition in the same drive?

Years ago, I bought a second hand PC with a small HDD. I formatted it and set a small 60gb as drive Cto install windows.

I got a bigger HDD recently and clone the old HDD to the new one. Now I realize that 60GB is too damn small for Windows. The HDD has two partition, C and E. I can't expand the C using the disk management tool from Windows since there's no unassigned space near it. Drive E is still have 500gb free, so there's plenty of space to use actually.

So, my question is: Is there any way that I could resize the C partition? If I can't, can I made a new drive partition from the free space in E (so a new F drive perhaps) and clone/move C to it?

Notes:

My old HDD is still around but will soon be used on another PC, so that can't be used as a permanent solution. What has cross my mind currently is to clone the new HDD to my old HDD, then wipe the new HDD, clone only the C to the new HDD, expand it, then clone only E to the new HDD.

Or

Clone only my current E drive to old HDD. Wipe the E clean in the new HDD, expand the C drive, then clone the E back to the new HDD.

But, is there any more convenient way to handle this without using two drive? Also, what is the ideal size for C partition to install Windows? I'm thinking to make it 120gb at least and put bigger applications to other drive.

Thanks in advance!

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