I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe
1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as
drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs. Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
On 24 Aug 2024 at 16:41:25 BST, "F" <news@nowhere> wrote:
I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe
1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as
drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the
present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs.
Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the
whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
Apparently it is. I started out writing a "boot a usb partitioning tool,
use that to resize C:, go to Disk Management and convert your disks from Basic to Active..." but this says Win11 can do it all non-destructively:
https://pureinfotech.com/change-partition-size-windows-11/
As far as I can tell this is not a chatgpt hallucination script, but I
don't use Win11 so I can't directly confirm.
Cheers - Jaimie
I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe
1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as
drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs. Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
In article <kOOdnbRWVcS7YlT7nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, F wrote...
I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe 1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs. Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
There might be a solution here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/storage-spaces-in-windows-b6c8b540-
b8d8-fb8a-e7ab-4a75ba11f9f2
Or maybe here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1621482/how-to-merge-two- disks-in-windows-10
I'll be interested to hear how you get on if you try either of these.
In article <MPG.41353e29a0d3408b989ae6@news.eternal-september.org>, Philip Herlihy wrote...
In article <kOOdnbRWVcS7YlT7nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, F wrote...
I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe 1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs. Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
There might be a solution here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/storage-spaces-in-windows-b6c8b540-
b8d8-fb8a-e7ab-4a75ba11f9f2
Or maybe here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1621482/how-to-merge-two-
disks-in-windows-10
I'll be interested to hear how you get on if you try either of these.
Another option might be to use a junction point to make part of one disk appear
to be part of the folder hierarchy on another. This article is a good summary
of this useful facility. https://www.2brightsparks.com/resources/articles/NTFS-Hard-Links-Junctions-and-
Symbolic-Links.pdf
I use these when filesystems are essentially replicated on different systems but possibly with a differently named arc of the hierarchy. This can happen in
OneDrive when the system has given the same MS Account a different local username and corresponding folder in \Users. Adding a junction with the 'expected' name makes a path on one machine viable on another. If they junction point is located in the same folder as its target folder, then navigation always works as expected.
Note that they can have unexpected consquences. If you refer to a file using a
full path which traverses a junction then you get the file, no problem. But if
you navigate (e.g. in a script) across a junction to an arbitrary location then
"up one folder" will land you in the destination hierarchy rather than the one
you've come from. "Back a folder" will behave as expected (bear in mind many users may not appreciate there is a junction involved and you may forget!).
Another option that occurs to me is that there is the option to mount a volume
in an empty NTFS folder. Never done that, so I can't comment on how navigation
would behave.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk- management/assign-a-mount-point-folder-path-to-a-drive
On 25/08/2024 10:51, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 24 Aug 2024 at 16:41:25 BST, "F" <news@nowhere> wrote:Thanks. I've used the Windows 11 built-in method to resize C and then
I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe >>> 1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as
drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the
present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs.
Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the >>> whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
Apparently it is. I started out writing a "boot a usb partitioning tool,
use that to resize C:, go to Disk Management and convert your disks from
Basic to Dynamic..." but this says Win11 can do it all non-destructively:
https://pureinfotech.com/change-partition-size-windows-11/
As far as I can tell this is not a chatgpt hallucination script, but I
don't use Win11 so I can't directly confirm.
Cheers - Jaimie
expand D with both on a single SSD but it's the merging the unallocated
space on C with a separate physical SSD drive D that's bothering me.
On 25/08/2024 10:51, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 24 Aug 2024 at 16:41:25 BST, "F" <news@nowhere> wrote:Thanks. I've used the Windows 11 built-in method to resize C and then
I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe >>> 1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as
drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the
present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs.
Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the >>> whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
Apparently it is. I started out writing a "boot a usb partitioning tool,
use that to resize C:, go to Disk Management and convert your disks from
Basic to Active..." but this says Win11 can do it all non-destructively:
https://pureinfotech.com/change-partition-size-windows-11/
As far as I can tell this is not a chatgpt hallucination script, but I
don't use Win11 so I can't directly confirm.
Cheers - Jaimie
expand D with both on a single SSD but it's the merging the unallocated
space on C with a separate physical SSD drive D that's bothering me.
I'll have a look at your link and see how it goes!
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So you just feel guilty for /no readily apparent reason/.
I've acquired a new laptop with 2TB of storage provided by two PCIe NVMe
1TB SSDs.
One has been installed as drive C (yes, all 1TB of it) and the other as
drive D.
I'd prefer to retain the C and D arrangement but with just 300GB of the present C holding Windows and its files along with installed programs. Ideally, I would have the balance of the present C drive, 700GB, and the whole of the present D drive seen as one D drive.
Is this possible? If it is, how would I go about it please?
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