I just right clicked on the C: drive and the option to extend the drive was right there (even though in Windows that option was grayed out). It turns out that with this software I didn't have to move anything. When I didn't see a modern version I decided to give minitool here a try. I actually came to Amazon looking for Partition Magic which is an old utility that worked well. I knew I needed to move those recovery partitions out of the way but most of my googling said it wouldn't be easy. The problem I ended up with was that the C: partition was stuck at the old small size and Windows couldn't extend it into the extra space on the new SSD drive because there were two recovery partitions between the C: partition and the free space.Ī quick google search told me this would be a headache.

I used a disk cloning program to move everything from the old one to the new one. I just bought a larger SSD hard drive to replace my c: drive that was running out of space after I upgraded to Windows 10. I was as skeptical as anyone could be knowing that most 'freeware' is useless and does nothing but tell you any useful feature will only work if you pay for it.

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