Novice wants to increase disk space on C drive

[thjames007]

On 6/11/2025 at 11:03 AM, giddyup said:

Think this might be beyond me. I thought it was just a simple process of shrinking the D drive and then allocating the space to the C drive.

And you thought someone would say. "Just right click on the c drive icon and select make bigger" . 😁. 

 

if you not sure what you doing or worried, buy an external hard drive. It's as easy as plug and play...  Then drop some of the old files from C drive there.  Spend a day cleaning up old files.    You have a place to store old files (in case PC crashes) Videos and photos and docs. While cleaning up and freeing up your C drive.   

 

[giddyup]

58 minutes ago, thjames007 said:

And you thought someone would say. "Just right click on the c drive icon and select make bigger" . 😁. 

 

if you not sure what you doing or worried, buy an external hard drive. It's as easy as plug and play...  Then drop some of the old files from C drive there.  Spend a day cleaning up old files.    You have a place to store old files (in case PC crashes) Videos and photos and docs. While cleaning up and freeing up your C drive.   

 

Already had a WD external hard drive for years, my problems in not enough space on the C Drive comes from movie downloads into qBittorrent. If the movies exceed 4 or 5GB there's not enough space for downloads.

[johng]

1 minute ago, giddyup said:

If the movies exceed 4 or 5GB there's not enough space for downloads.

 

Set the torrent program to use a drive that is not C drive

[SMIAI]

....and just cut and paste all the movies currently on the C drive to a Movies folder that you will create on the D drive.(or map the current folder in which they are stored, to the D drive).

[kingstonkid]

2 hours ago, giddyup said:

Already had a WD external hard drive for years, my problems in not enough space on the C Drive comes from movie downloads into qBittorrent. If the movies exceed 4 or 5GB there's not enough space for downloads.

Change your location for files.  

 

Personally, if I were you and a little worried, I would find a computer repair shop.  Buy a new HD or SSD and get them to install it and set up your computer so that you can safely download.  

Your D drive is not going to last long with videos.

 

Get a new HD installed, the techs will help you, and some of the places will actually show you what they are doing.  No muss, no fuss, and you get an almost brand-new computer.

[SMIAI]

OP is NOT going to get a bigger boot drive installed. Easiest thing for him to do is the move all of the movies from the C drive, into a folder on the D drive and to set Bittorrent up to download movies directly to his external drive from now on.

[NoshowJones]

On 6/11/2025 at 11:15 AM, SMIAI said:

I think you'll have exactly the same challenges with extending the C drive. All options are straightforward if you can follow  a guide.

 

 

Can anyone else make out what this guy is saying? Or am I the only one?

[donmuang37]

On 6/11/2025 at 11:03 AM, giddyup said:

Think this might be beyond me. I thought it was just a simple process of shrinking the D drive and then allocating the space to the C drive.

Duh... why not just take it to a computer shop who know what they are doing.  That way you don't screw it up yourself.  Should be very cheap, maybe the cost of a couple of beers.

[transam]

AOMEI partition assistant, download it see if you can workout how to move a bit of space...

 

In Windows settings, find storage, you can get it to scan, remove junk files, old windows stuff........

[giddyup]

1 hour ago, transam said:

AOMEI partition assistant, download it see if you can workout how to move a bit of space...

 

In Windows settings, find storage, you can get it to scan, remove junk files, old windows stuff........

All been done, many times.