Shrink drive and add to C ?

[Witski]

Pretty much the title,i have an old sata ssd for OS that i partitioned into 2, 100 Gb for the OS (C:) and the rest for games etc.
Now i don't use it anymore for anything so i shrinked 50 Gb from games drive but now i can't extend C: with it,only put it back into the game drive.

There is a way to add it to C: ? By searching google there is a software but i don't really trust those , the name is a bit shady :
" Free Partition Magic Download for Windows 10 " .

https://www.resize-c.com/howto/shrink-partition-extend-c.html

Edit:
It worked,the black screen after the restarting with all the info and the slow loading/processing about mooving the drives was worrying but it worked :D.

[Air]

With the way partitions work, shrinking a partition will only leave unallocated space after it and not before. The only way to extend the first partition(C:) to my knowledge would be to delete the other.

[_I_]

its like moving a wall on a drive
one partition smaller makes room for the another to go bigger

but only if done on the same drive

[Witski]

Originally posted by _I_:

its like moving a wall on a drive
one partition smaller makes room for the another to go bigger

but only if done on the same drive

yeah, it was the same sata ssd splitted in two, took 50gb from the games partition and gave it to C with the software i linked, i needed to unzip a super huge file and didn't have enough room in temp.
Basically with windows drive manager shrinking the game partition put the unallocated space to the right of it and C was on the far left, because of that, windows didn't let me expand ot, meanwhile woth the software i managed to put it next to C: .

[Preacher]

I had no idea you had to manually partition stuff. I just plopped my OS on the SSD and used the remaining space for some games.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Preacher:

I had no idea you had to manually partition stuff. I just plopped my OS on the SSD and used the remaining space for some games.

OS partition drives to have it setup. You don't need to partition a drive further in order to use it for anything else. Some like to partition there drives for organisation purposes
For example

You have a 500Gb drive with Windows on it, C:\. Windows will partition in into 3.
1xRecovery Partition
1x EFI System
1x OS and everything else

nothing stopping people partitioning the drive again so that C: is 250GB and have a new drive called D: with the rest of the space. D: could be used for games or anything.

Nothing stopping someone partitioning it to show as 3 drive. C:, D: and E:

Still have the same overall space but the space is now essentially grouped into 'virtual drives'

[_I_]

you can make windows install everything on a single partition
on oem pcs, its better to wipe it and install windows without all the bloatware

[Supafly]

Originally posted by _I_:

you can make windows install everything on a single partition
on oem pcs, its better to wipe it and install windows without all the bloatware

True, especially what considering the bloat most places pre-install. Even doing a fresh install yourself can have Windows create the other, small, partitions I mentioned. Only 617MB for both the Recovery and EFI partitions without any bloat as I've built and done clean installs of the OS myself for 2 decades

[_I_]

by default yes, but you can remove them during the os install

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU3-dgrCzNQ

[Supafly]

Originally posted by _I_:

by default yes, but you can remove them during the os install

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU3-dgrCzNQ

Should have worded that better. Me starting with True was agreeing that it could be done in a single partition. Then I went on to point out the other 2 partitions don't exactly take up a lot of space. 600MB isn't exactly a lot even if you only had 60GB drive

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Originally posted by Preacher:

I had no idea you had to manually partition stuff. I just plopped my OS on the SSD and used the remaining space for some games.

OS partition drives to have it setup. You don't need to partition a drive further in order to use it for anything else. Some like to partition there drives for organisation purposes
For example

You have a 500Gb drive with Windows on it, C:\. Windows will partition in into 3.
1xRecovery Partition
1x EFI System
1x OS and everything else

nothing stopping people partitioning the drive again so that C: is 250GB and have a new drive called D: with the rest of the space. D: could be used for games or anything.

Nothing stopping someone partitioning it to show as 3 drive. C:, D: and E:

Still have the same overall space but the space is now essentially grouped into 'virtual drives'

oooo thats so cool man. ty