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  1. Mmmmmmmmmm how i needed these GB's

    Cracking piece of software you got there, so much easier and better looking than the default Windows program! Its annoying how theres freeware like that that's better than what a massive company like Microsoft can muster up

    Cheers Prawn!!!  <3

  2. Good :) I'd rather you try the software before having to do anything with DiskPart, that's for sure! It can be quite easy to mess things up with the wrong command at the wrong time in that :s 
    I ain't going anywhere near the DiskPart! :LLLL

    I remember when the desktop PC crapped itself and my dad was doing all these command things and it looked horrible :L Used to be a software engineer so he seems to know what to do with PC's :L 

  3. Ok, so when you right click on TEMP_PART01 does it give you the option to format it? If it does, and if you've copied the data you want from there, then do that. Once it's finished formatting it, it'll probably still have the D: drive letter and the blue bar still above it. At which point you need to right click it again and select Delete Volume.
    After that those 395GB should show as Unallocated Space. Right click on C: and select Extend Volume, and just follow it through without changing anything, it should be able to find the unallocated space by itself. Hopefully that works, but it could still fail. At which point try the software in the link below, I haven't used it myself but I've read comments on forums saying that it worked well.
    http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Assistant-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-75118871.html?part=dl-10080588&subj=dl&tag=button

    That's not the way I did it for mine, I used DiskPart with an elevated command prompt, but I can't find the sequence of commands I used anywhere anymore :s I can find the commands, but I wouldn't want to guess what order I used them in and have it be wrong. Plus it's a little harder to do that way and it almost feels like fumbling in the dark a bit lol. Hopefully one of those two above works!
    Nah, the format option is greyed out :/
    Did you try it with that software too yea?

    Otherwise this video will help. To open the elevated command prompt (using Windows 7 I'm guessing?) click on start, all programs, accessories, right click on command prompt and choose run as administrator.

    As for the instructions in the vid, and this is important! Follow his instructions until he gets to 0:28, then you need to stop the video and not do anything else he does.
    Type in 'select part x' replacing the 'x' with the partition number that those 395GB's are assigned to. After that type 'list part' again and check that there's a little * on the left of the 395GB partition. Now ignore the rest of the video and follow what I write here.
    Type 'format fs=ntfs quick' and once that's done type in 'list part' again. Those 395GB's have probably disappeared but that's ok, we want them to, after that type 'exit'. Now that extra space should show up in the Disk Manager you were on earlier and it should let you extend C: into it. As far as I know, that'll work, but if anything goes wrong and you end up having to completely re-install Windows then I'm extremely sorry! (Just getting that in there in case ;)) But you should be fine with those commands :) 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nc1PAhieQ
    Oh, i didn't realise that the software did it too :P

    Just firing it up now so we shall see ;)

  4. Ok, so when you right click on TEMP_PART01 does it give you the option to format it? If it does, and if you've copied the data you want from there, then do that. Once it's finished formatting it, it'll probably still have the D: drive letter and the blue bar still above it. At which point you need to right click it again and select Delete Volume.
    After that those 395GB should show as Unallocated Space. Right click on C: and select Extend Volume, and just follow it through without changing anything, it should be able to find the unallocated space by itself. Hopefully that works, but it could still fail. At which point try the software in the link below, I haven't used it myself but I've read comments on forums saying that it worked well.
    http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Assistant-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-75118871.html?part=dl-10080588&subj=dl&tag=button

    That's not the way I did it for mine, I used DiskPart with an elevated command prompt, but I can't find the sequence of commands I used anywhere anymore :s I can find the commands, but I wouldn't want to guess what order I used them in and have it be wrong. Plus it's a little harder to do that way and it almost feels like fumbling in the dark a bit lol. Hopefully one of those two above works!
    Nah, the format option is greyed out :/

  5. Another nooby question.....

    I shrank the D:, but it won't let me use this to extend the C: drive.....Why is this happening? :'(
    You need to delete D: instead of shrinking it :p It should come up as 'unallocated space' before you're able to extend C: into it.

    If that doesn't work then post again to let me know, there's another way around it :) 
    FS, i thought it would have been as easy as shrink D and extend C :L

    I assume i should put all the stuff on D: onto an external hard drive so i don't lose it?
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