Hi, so I am trying to extend my C: drive to 234 gb of unallocated space on my laptop. I have already tried the windows disk management, but I’d have to reorganize all of my drives around which is just painful to do at the higher sizes. Any help with this?

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Device Specs:

Processor Intel® Core™ i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)

Device ID 5CBE174D-C1BE-47AD-A703-057AE18E96B5

Product ID 00325-82064-17524-AAOEM

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

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Windows Specs:

Edition Windows 11 Home

Version 23H2

Installed on ‎5/‎7/‎2023

OS build 22631.2715

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22677.1000.0

  • rproffitt1@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Resizing isn’t without risk so before you proceed, backups are made and secured.

    We usually can’t resize a drive that the OS is running from or one that has been bitlocked so my method is to be sure the drive is not bitlocked then boot up a tool like GPARTED to do the work. Watch a few YouTubes about GPARTED use before you do this. Also, if you don’t have backups of what you can’t lose, you usually have nothing to lose.

    • jasonbrucat@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for your help, I got it to work.

      What I did was,

      1. Make a bootable USB of Ubuntu using 20 or so GB from my unallocated space.
      2. Download gparted
      3. Go back to windows and run chkdsk C: /f in the CMD prompt as administrator.
      4. Reboot twice
      5. Load back into Ubuntu
      6. Then reallocate my space after now being able to move stuff.

      I probably skipped some steps in my run through but thanks for the assistance!

  • rekabis@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Any modern copy of Windows will absolutely refuse to allow you to modify the partition that it is sitting on. There is no way around this.

    What you need to do is modify that partition when that copy of Windows is not up and running.

    Take the drive out and stick it in a different computer. Boot from a bootable USB or CD drive. But whatever you do, the tools you are running cannot alter the C:\ partition of any Windows which is actively up and running.

    • jasonbrucat@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for your help, I got it to work.

      What I did was,

      1. Make a bootable USB of Ubuntu using 20 or so GB from my unallocated space.
      2. Download gparted
      3. Go back to windows and run chkdsk C: /f in the CMD prompt as administrator.
      4. Reboot twice
      5. Load back into Ubuntu
      6. Then reallocate my space after now being able to move stuff.

      I probably skipped some steps in my run through but thanks for the assistance!