This is my computer partition list.
You can see my C drive is running very low on disk space. I wanted to extend my disk space, so I used mmc Disk managment to shrink a volume, but I can't extend it to the C drive because the extended volume in dropdown list of C is not clickable.
I've tried many packages, but none were able to do it. My C drive is simple, basic, NTFS, healthy (boot, crash dump, primary partition).
The MMC Windows:
What should I do?
In order to extend the C drive, you will need to have contiguous space for it to expand into
from the looks of your second screenshot, the available space immediately after C is taken up by a extended partition with three logical partitions in it
If the free space AFTER this volume is what you intended to extend C into, you will need to use a partition management tool to move the logical volume to that empty part of the disk, so that the C drive can expand into the free space. You will also need to remove the currently formatted partition (it still looks to be formatted as an NTFS partition, albeit without a drive letter)
Could you go into a bit more detail as to what you are envisioning?
something like GParted or Easeus would help move things around a bit, but i would advice some familiarity with them before messing with your partition tables
Have you considered getting a second drive and cloning the data out to it?
There is no simple way to do this using the MMC Disk Management snapin, because you have already used the space directly after your 'C' partition for your 'D' partition.
If you're able to create a partition with sufficient space elsewhere, you could copy the content of the 'D' partition into that, then delete the 'D' partition, which would allow you to extend the 'C' partition onto the newly-created free space.
Boot g parted copy data from logical D-drive to any other partition then delete d-drive logical partition. Reduce the size of extended logical as free space will be left . Now increase the size of C-drive.
