Solved Small C Drive

vrosa said:

Ok. Let's go step by step !

You drive has been partitioned. You can see detailed disk information about all volumes in Disk Management (Console). For the system partition I think that 200GB would be more than enough for most users, even heavy ones ! Try to shrink drive F:\ (~110GB) to generate free space and add it into c:\. You can also use some third party softwares to do that.

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1. It's easier and faster for you to back up your Windows 8 OS + Installed applications.
2. Keep your data separated from the OS + Installed applications, so in case if something goes wrong with your Windows OS, it'll be easy to fix/restore without worrying to lose any data.
3. Windows would run better if your C drive is small because it only contains your Windows OS System Files and installed programs and will be less fragmented, less search time for files.

topgundcp said:

I think what the factory people did for you is perfectly OK & good. Normally, you'd want your C drive to be small and contains only Windows 8 OS and all the installed applications in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (X86). That's why they partitioned your 700GB physical disk into 2 partitions so that you'd want to save your data in F: drive. There's a good reason for doing this:

1. It's easier and faster for you to back up your Windows 8 OS + Installed applications.
2. Keep your data separated from the OS + Installed applications, so in case if something goes wrong with your Windows OS, it'll be easy to fix/restore without worrying to lose any data.
3. Windows would run better if your C drive is small because it only contains your Windows OS System Files and installed programs and will be less fragmented, less search time for files.

I don't know why your C drive takes that much space and only have about 6-7 GB left. May be you have a lot of data stored in C drive + Temp Files + Junk Files + Pagefile.sys + Hiberfile.sys etc... I suggest that you leave the C: drive the way it is, 90GB is more than enough. What you need to do is re-organize it, move your data from C drive to F: drive. My C drive is a 128GB SSD, I have tons of programs installed and it only takes around 40GB. All my data is stored in a larger drive and it is much better this way in case my Windows becomes unbootable or if I need to re-install then I don't have to worry about losing data.

Hope this help !!!

EDIT: To answer your question about not being able to merge because the partition that you want to merge need to be adjacent to C drive. You'd have to use a third party Partition Manager to do it. You can download a free partition manager in the link below:
Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online

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topgundcp said:

I think what the factory people did for you is perfectly OK & good. Normally, you'd want your C drive to be small and contains only Windows 8 OS and all the installed applications in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (X86). That's why they partitioned your 700GB physical disk into 2 partitions so that you'd want to save your data in F: drive. There's a good reason for doing this:

1. It's easier and faster for you to back up your Windows 8 OS + Installed applications.
2. Keep your data separated from the OS + Installed applications, so in case if something goes wrong with your Windows OS, it'll be easy to fix/restore without worrying to lose any data.
3. Windows would run better if your C drive is small because it only contains your Windows OS System Files and installed programs and will be less fragmented, less search time for files.

I don't know why your C drive takes that much space and only have about 6-7 GB left. May be you have a lot of data stored in C drive + Temp Files + Junk Files + Pagefile.sys + Hiberfile.sys etc... I suggest that you leave the C: drive the way it is, 90GB is more than enough. What you need to do is re-organize it, move your data from C drive to F: drive. My C drive is a 128GB SSD, I have tons of programs installed and it only takes around 40GB. All my data is stored in a larger drive and it is much better this way in case my Windows becomes unbootable or if I need to re-install then I don't have to worry about losing data.

Hope this help !!!

EDIT: To answer your question about not being able to merge because the partition that you want to merge need to be adjacent to C drive. You'd have to use a third party Partition Manager to do it. You can download a free partition manager in the link below:
Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online

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Thanks so much! I got it to work with the third party tool. The reason my C drive is full so quickly is because I'm a gamer, and i use a web shop known as Steam. (I don't know if you're familiar). All games on the store are around 10 - 6 GB to download and I have a lot of them. As for why I cant use the F partition for these games is because Steam has a bug that restricts it from moving the root folders to a new partition in Windows 8. I don't know when or if they will fix it, so I wanted to move the space but I didn't know how. Again, thanks a lot for the assistance.

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1. Move Steam Folder to F: drive so in F: drive you would have a folder: F:\Steam
2. Open the elevated command prompt and type:
   mklink /J "C:\Program Files\Steam" "F:\Steam"
   This effectively makes Steam as if it was installed under C:\Program Files but the storage for Steam is in fact under F:\Steam