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G73SW-A1 Primary disk partition question

anderdea
Level 7
I have two 500 GB HDD's. The primary has 3 partitions including the "C" and an additional partition (can't remember it's letter) and the recovery partition.
My question regards the Primary HDD/partitions. What I want to do is increase the size of the "C" volume by deleting the 2nd volume then deleting that partition, then expanding the "C" volume with the new unallocated space. I know this can be done using the Microsoft Disc Manger and I'm pretty comfortable with the process.

My question is, will I have any potential issues when I reboot the laptop after doing this? I was going to us "gparted" to do the manipulations and then remembered that Win 7 has a partition manager. While looking at the info on the gparted web site, there was a how to fix a reboot issue if the system can't be rebooted after expanding the “C” volume. It required using the Win 7 install disc (which we all know ASUS doesn't supply). So I am a little leery about expanding the "C" given the possibility of this happening.

Has anyone actually done a "C" expansion? Do I have anything to worry about?
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houndazs
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i have done it dozens of times, and yes you are safe. JUST DON'T DELETE THE 100mb SYSTEM PARTITION!!!!!

You can do all that you need to do in windows 7 using the disk management panel.

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xeromist
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Hound has it exactly, the problems people had were from deleting the partition *before* the C drive. Deleting your data drive and expanding C will not cause any issues.
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Thanks for the quick responce. Makes me feel better about trying it.

anderdea wrote:
Thanks for the quick responce. Makes me feel better about trying it.

It's very easy. Don't complicate it with 3rd-party utilities...Windows Disk Management does it perfectly.

Thanks, worked fine.