Windows 10: How To Temporarily Extend C-Drive With External Storage

For better context, feel free to visit Page 3 of my "Correcting An Endless 'Automatic Repair' Loop" thread. Details and screengrabs are included in the most recent posts.I would like to ask the Microsoft Community about using an external storage device in order to temporarily expand the disk space of my laptop in order to make use of a recovery program that needs more disk space to complete the process to create bootable recovery media. The C-drive of the laptop I am using has nearly all of its 28.3GB disk space consumed; unfortunately, the recovery program will need 27.01GB to complete its pr

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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!

 

extend c drive storage space

c drive has fixed storage i:e 38 gb,now how to extend my storage data in c drive.

 

extending C drive into an external SSD

Unable to extend my C drive into an external SSD drive. Have 3 external drives none worked.

Related to this could not back my C drive to any of the 3 hard drives.

Both o0tions did no work.