Vista merge volumes

It is not the best way to increase C drive space in destructive way. Actually, you can shrink D to release free space from it, and then transfer the free space to C drive, so no volumes will be deleted and everything keeps the same. In the pop-up window, drag left border rightwards to shrink it. In the pop-up window, drag the right border rightwards to hold the Unallocated space. If there is not plenty of free space in volume D, you can get free space from any other volumes in the same disk.

How to merge partitions to increase C drive space? How to merge C and D volumes: Transfer all files in volume D to other partitions. Right click Server Manager on bottom left to open Disk Management. Right click D and select Delete Volume. Right click C and select Extend Volume. Also read: how to merge unallocated space in Windows To merge unallocated space to C drive with Disk Management Extend Volume function, you should make sure that the unallocated space is contiguous to the C partition under Disk Management.

Then, you can right click C drive and choose Extend Volume option. How to get unallocated space on Windows 7 8 10 Vista? Question : Does shrink volume produce unallocated space in Disk Management? Answer : Yes, shrining a volume can produce unallocated space, however the produced unallocated will not be close to the C drive and there is no way to use the unallocated space for c drive if it's not adjacent.

Solution : Deleting the volume that stands in between is the only way in Disk Management, or you may use free tool Partition Resizer that can freely move unallocated space close to c drive without losing data. Video - how to shrink volume, create new volume and copy D drive data to somewhere else, and delete D drive to merge unallocated space to c drive.

Is it safe to delete those special partitions? Or will deletion make your computer unbootable or unusable?

Assuming that you get a green light from Dell Support If you have a place to back up the important to you files on those partitions, then Vista's Disk Management can delete all of them except the System Partition and Boot Volume Disk Management will tell you which ones those are. Then you can use DM to create one or more new partitions to use the freed-up space.

Or DM can "extend" a partition Drive C:, for example to include that space.