Novice wants to increase disk space on C drive

[thjames007]

  On 6/11/2025 at 4:03 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.

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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]

  On 6/17/2025 at 1:23 AM, 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.   

 

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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]

  On 6/17/2025 at 2:18 AM, giddyup said:

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

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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]

  On 6/17/2025 at 2:18 AM, 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.

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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 4:15 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.

 

 

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

[donmuang37]

  On 6/11/2025 at 4:03 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.

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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]

  On 6/17/2025 at 9:59 AM, 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........

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All been done, many times.

[Daffy D]

This PC - Right click "C" - Properties- General tab :-

 

[transam]

  On 6/17/2025 at 11:09 AM, giddyup said:

All been done, many times.

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A reason I have a desk top pc is my motherboard has ports for up to 6 SSD/HDD's. I have 4 at the mo, so never a problem with somewhere to put something or duplicate.....🤗

 

My old back-up laptop, I removed the DVD player thingy and install a caddy in its place with a 1TB SSD..🤗

[kingstonkid]

  On 6/17/2025 at 9:52 AM, donmuang37 said:

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.

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Great minds think alike, although I would ot trust someone who does it for beer.  

 

When it was alive, I would suggest Pantip, but now, if you are in Bangkok, I would suggest a trip to Rangsit to ZEER.  Lots of qualified technicians who know what they are doing.

[SMIAI]

Ludicrous suggesting that they take it to a shop for such a minor issue as having filled the boot drive with media.

 

The other thing I would suggest is to not use Torrent software at all, but to use a seedbox to download them for you, offline.

Otherwise, you may have situations where you need to keep your PC on all of the time.

Your torrents will be stored in the Cloud, ready for you to stream or download at any time or place with an Internet connection, via Phone, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop, TV....

Using Torrent software and downloading/uploading directly from your device, is so last decade and is so limiting.

 

[KhunBENQ]

  On 6/17/2025 at 2:18 AM, 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.

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As I wrote, it's the movies/videos in 90% of cases.

You know it, so why not move those files to other drive or better external media.

And setup your Bitorrent SW to store elsewhere.

Unnecessary to buy new hardware.

 

[livram]

To do what you want use miniToolPartion Wizard. Easy to use and free.

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

[KhunHeineken]

I had a similar problem a few years ago.  C drive filling up, no idea why. 

 

Turns out that the restore point "slider" was set to 100% so I had many GB's of old restore points.  I deleted them all.  Moved the slider back to 5%, then created a new restore point.  I regained all the GB's, and no problem after that. 

 

If something happens, you only need one of the last few restore points, no a restore point from way back.