Originally Posted By: Teunis
It really depends on where you have the extra room. Without getting too technical, you shrink a drive that has room. Then move drives about until the extra room is beside the area you wish to increase. This requires lots of patience and prayer (if you are on good terms). Then you add the space to the drive you wish to increase. Note: The drives must be on the same physical drive. It is usually easier to add another drive (external) shove a heap of non critical and or backups onto the external drive.

There are many programs about to make it easier but would you trust them.

Tony


I used EaseUS Partition Magic for years for these types of resizings without any problems---but they do take a bit of caution and, sometimes, a lot of time. Now, drives are cheap, and external eSATA and RAID bays are reasonable. Even though you never really can afford not to backup, I backup more now because I can more easily afford it.


Your experience may vary but I would like to mention something that I have become cautious about: backing up data via USB to more than one drive at the same time (e.g., copying one set of files to drive X: and another set to Drive Y: at the same time, both drives connected via USB). Every visual indication and message indicates that all is being multi-tasked ok but I have later plugged in a drive and had Win10 report the need for an error scan. I never lost any data but that pesky error message can take a whole day of scanning for a 4TB drive, and it still ends up being a mystery at the end of the scan. I eventually just re-cloned the drive from my second backup.

Paj
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