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How to move volume from disk o to disk 1 and extend c drive ?
Hi All, I want to extend my c drive which is located at Disk 0 and I want to move unallocated volume in Disk 1 to Disk 0. Can anybody help me point out if there is an article that give a step by step instruction? Thank you in advance for your help.
You can’t transfer unallocated space from one disk to another. Unless you’re dealing with a RAID array or some other storage abstraction mechanism, the unallocated space on a given disk physically exists on that disk. If on the other hand you have unallocated space on the SAME disk as your C drive and you want to move some other partition around so that you can allocate that to C, then yes that’s possible. A screenshot of your Windows Disk Management application would be helpful here.
And @Mary G , it’s not true that the boot disk has to be SATA Port 0. First of all, it’s possible to boot from non-SATA storage like NVMe or eMMC, but even with SATA storage it is absolutely possible to boot from a SATA disk connected to a port other than Port 0.
- Your problem is not very clear. Do you have two memories installed on your PC? If disk 0 belongs to memory 0, and disk 1 belongs to memory 1 you cannot do what you ask. If instead you have a disk 0 that belongs to the memory 0 and a disk 2 that belongs to the memory 0, in this case you can use a software for moving, creating or deleting partitions on disk. One of the many software you can find on the internet is Acronis Disk Director, EaseUS Partition Master Free or PartitionMagic.
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If you are using a current Alienware 15, use the Intel RAID option in BIOS and use the Intel RST program to set it up. RAID will allow you to append a drive. (It is called RAID 0). However, you might need to evacuate the second disk before you append it to the disk that currently contains your "C" drive.
For moving the partitions around, I use "Macrium Reflect". The program is pretty comprehensive and is free (for home use).TuanNguyenPC
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Posted August 9th, 2019 06:00
I like your answer. I also found Macrium Reflect software. Thanks for the help!
@CrashTheGibson RAID 0 doesn’t allow that. You’re thinking of simple disk spanning, which is called JBOD. RAID 0 splits data evenly across two disks. The problem with JBOD though is that if you span disks that have very different performance characteristics, such as an SSD and HDD, you won’t have a way to specify whether a given set of data should be on faster or slower storage. But even that doesn’t allow you to just move capacity from one physical disk to another. In addition, both RAID 0 and JBOD double your risk of disk failure since a failure of EITHER disk will cause you to lose the data on both of them, so backups become even more important.
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Posted August 4th, 2019 11:00
You need to say what model computer you have and how many hard drives you have. Boot drive must be sata port 0. Open Disk Management to see a visual of all your drives.