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I left for the system 100 GB thinking that it's enough... I updated to Windows 10.

Installed some programs, mainly Visual Studio, Office, Corel Draw etc...

Now, I don't know how, but I am running out of free space on the system drive.

I installed the MiniTool Partition Wizard, but I am not sure is it's possible to move a partition to another enter image description here

I tried to install, say, Visual Studio on another disk, but it seems to be impossible, it always installs the main files on the C drive...

Edit:

I merged the C partitions but the boot partition to obtain:

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serge
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You cannot do this unless you use something like a virtual machine where you can build out a virtual disk drive. Some VM software will let you "combine" physical hard disks into a "virtual disk" that the virtual machine would recognize as a single physical device. I believe VMWare has a software solution for this, if you need something specific to look at.

You're looking at three separate physical disks in that picture. The total space available on disk 1 is 111GB, that's all you get. You could certainly shrink that C drive partition to get room for an other partition, but you can't physically add a chunk of one hard drive to another. If you used Disk Manager to shrink the partition, your existing partitions on disk 1 plus the un-allocated space can still only equal 111GB.

If I were to take a guess, I'd say it looks like you're running out of space on your C drive and are trying to solve that problem. Since what you're asking isn't really possible, you have two options:

  1. Get a larger hard drive to hold your Windows installation

  2. Clean out your C: drive and move anything that doesn't need to be there over to a different drive with more space. Tools like CCleaner and WinDirStat can help with this process. You can also replicate the Windows file system on another disk and instruct the system to place downloads and other files in there so they don't bloat your installation hard drive.

jcam3
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It´s not easy to group non-contiguous NTFS partitions but you have tools to do it for you: Partition Wizard

hackela
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I suggest you use symlinks or junction directories for your program files directory or downloads or any other folder that's taking a lot of space.

Please refer to this question and it's accepted answer. Link to question

For example, I have a VERY big iTunes library. It takes 120 Gb aproximately. Since my SSD has only 120 GB total to store OS and apps, I made a junction in the iTunes library directory pointing to my D: drive, which has 2TB available. iTunes does not even realize it's writing into another drive, which is the point of using junctions.

You can also make a RAID setup, but unfortunately, that should be done before installing your OS. It has a lot of disadvantages for you, since you only need more free space.

Edel Gerardo
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You can't. You're trying to merge partitions across two physical drives. This is impossible. You can move your operating system (if you're very careful and make backups) using special utilities.

I can't detail it here, but I found an article you may be interested in here.

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