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[Ecrofirt]

Here's what's going on. I want to resize my logical partitions so that I can have 20GB on my C drive, as 10GB just isn't doing it for me. Here's what it currently looks like in Partition Magic:

What I want to do it make the C drive bigger by about 10GB. Unfortunately, this would require me to go into both the D and E partitions.

What can I do?

 

[Ecrofirt]

bumpin for some help.

 

[Crazymoogle]

Shouldn't this be as simple as clearing up the freespace (by either eliminating unneeded partitions or downsizing existing ones) followed by increasing the size of C:?

 

[Ecrofirt]

I don't know.

I've never done anything like this, and I don't want to fuck up anything. I'm afraid that if I try to resize C, it's going to try to overwrite the stuff in D and E,

 

[Crazymoogle]

The picture of how your partitions fit has absolutely nothing to do with the partitions themselves. All the partitions themselves do is map out parts of the drive. You can't overwrite the contents on D or E unless you format the partition or shrink a full one.

In your case, you can probably right-click on E: or F: to bring up a menu and then choose to downsize the partition by 10,000 or more MB. When that's done, right-click on C: and upsize it with all of the extra space. Your files should be fine unless some sort of power failure or drive failure happens during the partition size change.