Hard Drive Partition Window 7 Help

Needs help in changing size of the part of the size of the hard drive of my Window 7 laptop. The resident hard drive is partitioned to C and D. Now the D drive is full and the C drive still has 60% free space. I am able to shrink the the C drive. When I try to expand the D drive, the choice in the Window Disk Management window is grey out! How can I safely expand the D drive? I have been living with the disk full message for over a year. The last thing I want to do is mess up my computer because I use it for work and storing a lot of personal data.
Thanks!

There is no "safe" way to do this. You must have a full backup before you attempt to grow a partition. There are some 3rd party partition managers that will do this, but not for the faint of heart or those without backups.

does the d drive have some program or is it just unstructured data? (Likes documents)

it would be much safer to just move a few things to the c drive. If you don't know what is taking the space use something like windirstat it will do a scan for you.

If you do choose to grow it than tailchaser is 100% correct. But you should already have a good backup :P (right?)

Dropbox Basic FTW and it is free!

That way you aren't 100% dependent on one old ass hard drive on an old ass windows 7 computer to store your stuff!! ;)

Use it as an opportunity to upgrade. SSD prices are ludicrously low, and you'll get a nice bump in performance to boot.

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Originally Posted by chriscar

Use it as an opportunity to upgrade. SSD prices are ludicrously low, and you'll get a nice bump in performance to boot.

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+1 to this SSD's make life so much better, even though I only use my MacBooks on a daily basis. Put an SSD in my gaming pc and the difference is astounding, and much quieter.

...and buy an external USB drive to back-up to. The Western Digital I bought came with automated software for unattended backups.

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Originally Posted by gabkwong

Needs help in changing size of the part of the size of the hard drive of my Window 7 laptop. The resident hard drive is partitioned to C and D. Now the D drive is full and the C drive still has 60% free space. I am able to shrink the the C drive. When I try to expand the D drive, the choice in the Window Disk Management window is grey out! How can I safely expand the D drive? I have been living with the disk full message for over a year. The last thing I want to do is mess up my computer because I use it for work and storing a lot of personal data.
Thanks!

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I tried resizing the Windows 7 C drive partition on the hard drive that came in my laptop, but I just managed to permanently lose a couple hundred gigabytes of space from the 500GB drive. I was able to shrink the C drive, but I couldn't assign the freed space to a new drive letter. So I tried to grow my C drive to reclaim that space, but that failed too.

This was a couple of years ago, and I don't recall all the details, but I think it was something like you describe with needed options being grayed out. I removed the drive from my laptop and replaced it with an SSD plus a larger hard drive, and I run Linux on it. I have the Windows disk installed in the expansion bay in my docking station, but I only use it once a year for Turbo Tax. Although now that I have a Garmin VIRB XE camera, I guess I'll be using it for VIRB Edit too.