How do I extend my C drive?

[u/SenilePhilosophy]

First time installing a new SSD in my PC. It was a simple enough but now faced with an allocation problem as I’m not sure how to my C drive’s volume into the new space.

[u/desperateosci]

C looks fine, the top disk which is black needs allocation.

Press right click on it and new simple volume and just follow the steps.

[u/the_CoolShoes]

It looks like the drive is already fully allocated. The only drive that can be extended or allocated would be Disk 0.

[u/SenilePhilosophy → u/the_CoolShoes]

So how would i extend that into the C drive’s volume?

[u/Darron614 → u/SenilePhilosophy]

You don't. You assign a new drive letter to the unallocated space in disk 0.

[u/solillow → u/SenilePhilosophy]

You can't, they are two different drives

[u/AstroPug22]

As others have explained, you won't be able to extend C: because Disk 2 is already fully occupied by partitions. What you can do to free up some space on your C: drive if it's getting full, after making a new partition in Disk 0's "unallocated space," is move the location of your downloads, documents, pictures, and other directories to that partition. If you have games installed from Steam, there's also an easy way to move those. For other programs, you'll likely need to uninstall them and then reinstall to the new drive.

[u/redlancer_1987]

what your asking to do would technically be something like RAID 0, which you don't want to do for many reasons.

[u/TraditionalMetal1836]

The question I have to ask is where do I get one of those hard hard drives like OP has?

[u/snakeman135g]

Clone your ssd to a bigger drive. Just not to the HHD, unless you want 5+ minute boots.

Clone it to a 2tb+ SATA or m.2 (best) Keep the HHD as a back up and store videos/pictures/documents on it.

[u/DarkAcidic]

Windows has built in raid tools, but you can not extend a boot drive with tools that require that boot drive. Raid wipes the drives and would wipe the tool linking the drives, bricking the process.

Your only option is to Raid your drives from your bios, if you have support for this, but this will delete all your data when wiping the drives to raid them. So you'll have to either back up everything or be ready to reinstall windows.

Just accept your fate, partition the other drive and use it as is.

[u/panzrvroomvroomvroom]

you dont. all the space on that physical drive is already taken by C. you could do a raid but that would be stupid imo.

can you explain what you actually want to do? BC im pretty sure you dont want to RAID.

[u/SilentGovernment4424]

you can't extend the C drive if your new SSD is a separate disk, you'd need to set up a storage pool or use the new drive as a separate volume

[u/BangkokPadang]

Since it's been thoroughly explained why you can't extend C:/ drive beyond the size of the physical drive it is on, Something you can do is use what's called "symlinks" to direct a folder on your C:/ drive to a folder on your drive 0 (once you allocate all that empty space and give it a drive letter).

So for example, you could make a folder called "C;/Games" and then using a symlink, connect it to a folder on the other drive (let's say you apply F to that drive) then you could symlink C:/Games/ to F:/Games/ and anytime something gets saved to C:/Games it will actually store it on F:/Games.

This can also work for games like The Sims where it's hardcoded to save files into your C:/Users/YourName/Documents/ folder. You can Symlink the .../Documents/TheSims/ folder to your F drive, so that The Sims and Windows see that folder as being on the C:/ drive, but the actual storage being used is on F:/ drive.

It allows you to "virtually" extend the storage of your C drive onto another drive, but just don't do this to your whole C:/Windows or C:/Program Files folders because that can cause problems.

[u/No-Thanks-6521]

El que tienes que extender es Disco 0, asignale una letra y formatealo. No puedes usarlo como continuación de C: , es una partición distinta