

The full functions you mention are for more involved tasks as you can see from here The answer is as given to you by my good colleague TerryNet use the free Easeus it will do the job for you and you do not require to purchase it. However when you shrink C using Disk Management the unallocated space will be to the left of D not to its right. So for instance in your screenshot you could extend D using that 9MB of unallocated space - as that is to the right of D You cannot use disk management for that as in Disk Management the free space must be behind that is to the right of the partition you wish to extend Macrium Reflect is one of many free tools that allow restoration to a smaller partition. One method people use is to do all this and take an image backup, resize the partitition and restore the backup to the partition. Definitely have a good backup before trying offline tools. If this isn't enough then you can try Paragon or similar but even that might not do it. Then try the things I mentioned and defrag it with something like defraggler so you can see what's happening, and try again. These can be overcome by turning off paging and hibernation and turned off event logging until you've done it but even then there are likely to be files called MFT files which are harder to deal with.įirst thing is to try Disk Management's sliders as is and see how far it will let you go. The main ones are the pagefile.sys, hiberfile, active files created by event logging etc. You can use a disk defrag app that shows where the data is and try to get it moved to the start but there are files which cannot easily be moved by such apps.

It's not like they're all necessarily bunched up at start of the disk. The main problem is the location of files on the drive.

Yes it's possible but can be more difficult than merely using the disk management sliders.
