What size hard-drive is in your computer right now? Does your system show that you have two hard-drives? Have you physically checked to see it its more than one physical drive? In a lot of cases, its actually only one hard-drive that has been divided into two or more partitions, making it look like more than one drive. IM-Magic offers a great program to help you out, its called Partition Resizer.
As you can see in the image (borrowed from IM-Magic) the Local Disk C: is running out of space, but what you don’t know, without opening the computer or using this software, is that the physical hard-drive is actually quite a bit bigger than 34.0 GB. Now, instead of deleting or trying to move files to another drive, you can use Partition Resizer to change the size of the existing partition with free space from the other partition. On IM-Magic’s website, they show changing it to 60.0 GB. This is a great way to create or recover hard-drive space for a great price.
In our office, we work with customers on a daily basis to make their computers better for them for a fair price. Sometimes, this includes installing or updating hard-drives. We have seen people be concerned in seeing a 1 TB drive listed in the computer, so we might resize the partition to show 2 500 GB hard-drives instead. We have even had a customer that got a new hard-drive and we created partition’s to create different drives for different file types such as music on one, photo’s on another, etc.
When we setup a new computer or refurbish a computer with a 250 GB or larger hard-drive, we like to make a decent sized partition for the operating system and installed programs, while making another partition to store their data on. This, at times, makes it easier to handle a reinstall of their computer operating system in the event of a crash. If your building your own computer, setting a new drive or need to adjust the partitions to your own liking, then check out Partition Resizer. Its a great quality program at a fair price. Whether you need it for just one computer, a dozen or more, they offer great pricing. We have used them on our own computers within our office and will be using it for some time to come.