I’m trying to download a game that’s almost 100GB and my PC is saying that I don’t have enough HD space. I know that I have a 1TB HD, but under “This PC” in File Explorer, it’s showing two different drives split up evenly. The one drive is “Local Disk C:” which is almost full at 476GB, and the other one is “New Volume D:” that is empty at 476GB. How can I merge these into one, or just use the free space to download this game? Thanks.

  • Illustrious_Rope5977@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Right click the start menu button and select Disk Management from the menu. Select New Volume D: and delete it. Then select Local Disk C: and open the Action menu at the top of the window to extend the volume into the unallocated space.

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    1 year ago

    Do you have any data on New Volume D? If not (and be really sure), open disk manager, delete partition D so it becomes free space, and as long as the free space is right next to the C drive space, you can expand C: to take D

    Again: be sure there is no data or data you want to keep on D: this will destroy the data. Back it up or move it off first.

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      1 year ago

      I never suggest this to anyone who asks such a question as I can’t be sure whether the drive is actually empty even if they say it is, whereas using a software of some sort will always merge and push anything in the secondary partition into a folder.