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Evening all, my daughter wants to expand the C drive on her new toshiba laptop and do-away with the D drive. Ok says I easy we go into disc manager and expand the volume, not so easy:mad: when I right click on C the expand voume is greyed out. any ideas how to get it done ? My reputation for infalibility is at stake.

Thanks for any help

Neill

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Hello there.....

 

Is it possible you are trying to do away with D drive and this partition actualy contains the recovery console that you may need in the future if the laptop incures issues?

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Sorry ken, I just came across your reply by chance ( teach me to read every thing ) it's some thing like 211G can't tell for sure as she has it on a trip at the moment.

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Mornning Ken, the recovery partition is on D which is labeled data. The reason she wantedto combine the partitions is on her last Tosh. laptop the D drive would never allow any data to be stored. I couldn't shrink that one ether!.

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Hi Neil

 

This is what my drive looks like.

My Recovery Partition does not have a drive letter.

D:\ (DATA) is a partition where I can save data to. DATA is the default name - which can be changed.

 

My Recovery Partition is showing here as 9.77GB and there is no drive letter.

 

Start > type in .....diskmgmt.msc ......ENTER

 

What do you have?

What size is the "DATA" partition? ( 200GB is NOT a recovery partition )

 

Does the information on D:\ say NTFS / Healthy / Primary Partition?

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Sorry Ken I have no access to the machine as my daughter has it on a trip,but yes disc managementlooks like that (diferant GB's of course). The recovery partition is on D but dosn't take up more than say 10G, I assumed that I could have expanded C drive into D leveing recovery as a seperate entity but it 'aint playing ball. We have made a recovery disc from the partition so it's safe.

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Hi Neill

 

Has the "Recovery" section of D:\ been put there by your daughter using software?

I am assuming that it is not an arrangement that Toshiba would employ.

 

If this is all that is on D:\ and you have a backup - it is possible to format D:\ create 2 partitions from it and expand C:\ into the larger partition.

 

Just a thought :)

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Hi Ken,

No it was on there from start, her other Toshiba was the same. I also thought if I have a recovery disc format and go from there but lost my nerve when she said " Please what ever you do don't SNAFU it" so we've left it as is.

Neill

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