reallocation of disk space btwn Vista disk drives

qizilbash · Joined: Nov 14, 2007 Posts: 1

my laptop came preloaded w/ Vista Home premium. Acer decided to split my hard drive roughly in half btwn C: ('Acer') and D: ('Data'), both in NFTS.

Now, C: is 95% full while D: has 22 Gb of unused disk space and I'd like to reallocate some of that to C: but I cannot figure how-to simply instruct the machine shrink D: by 10 gigs and increase C: by same amount.

Any help greatly appreciated,
Qizilbash

tbernstein · Joined: May 16, 2003 Posts: 1502 Location: London

This is an old post, but there were no answers.
Vista has its own partitioning software. It's a bit limited. As far as i can work out it will shrink the C: drive until it reaches an "unmovable" block of data. And then won't do it anymore than that.
But up to that limit using it is simplicity itself.
Right click on COMPUTER, choose MANAGE. Choose DISKMANAGEMENT and right click from there. Choose shrink etc.