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My hard drive used to have 2 gigs of free space (C drive), and no idea why but it is now full. I have tried clean disk, removing things using jgoodies disk report etc. but have no idea where that space went, it could have been system updates?

Anyhow, on the same drive, but different partition I have gigs of space (drives D and E).

Is there a free utility to reblance the free space over to the C drive?

user27449
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Yes, Easeus Partition Manager. Get the free version:

http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

KCotreau
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My answer on the question My windows directory is huge would also help you with your question.

Run WinDirStat and see if you can find any unusually large files. The program displays all of your files graphically:

WinDirStat

Sometimes you can find a large corrupted file that is entirely useless.

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evan.bovie
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You can do this with Windows 7 Disk Management. Look at the example picture (Disk 0) on this web site

  1. Assuming you have 3 partitions, C, D, E, move everything off of D and onto E.
  2. Delete the D partition (which will destroy all data on it
  3. Right click on the C: drive and choose Extend. You may be asked if it is OK to change the drive type to Dynamic -- this will be OK.
  4. Your C: drive will now be the size of the original C: plus the size of the former D: drive.

See also: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/

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If you can backup the contents of the D drive or are prepared for the contents to be deleted you can use the built-in Windows 7 Disk Management tool.

How to resize C drive using Disk Management:

  1. Open the Windows Start Menu and right-click on ‘Computer’
  2. Select ‘Manage’
  3. From the left hand menu, select ‘Disk Management’
  4. Right-click on the ‘D’ partition and select ‘Delete volume’
  5. Select ‘Yes’
  6. Right-click on the ‘C’ partition and select ‘Extend Volume’
  7. Select ‘Next’ ‘Next’ then ‘Finished’
  8. The C drive is now extended to use the space the D drive did use.

Source: Windows 7 - How to resize Hard Drive Partitions

Source is a personal blog I run.

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