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    How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?

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    I recently installed a 90GB Kingston Technology SSD and then created a shadow copy of my previous hard drive (which was 62.4GB), meaning that currently I only have access to this amount of space on the new hard drive.

    Can anyone confirm (or direct me to) a step by step guide to resize this boot partition to allow me to use all the space currently unallocated?

    Many thanks!

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    Re: How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?

    I assume the rest of the space on the SSD is 'unallocated'. Go to Disk Management, right click on the C partition and 'extend volume'.

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    Re: How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?

    Quote Originally Posted by AKA1 View Post
    My first post on the Forum!

    I recently installed a 90GB Kingston Technology SSD and then created a shadow copy of my previous hard drive (which was 62.4GB), meaning that currently I only have access to this amount of space on the new hard drive.

    Can anyone confirm (or direct me to) a step by step guide to resize this boot partition to allow me to use all the space currently unallocated?

    Many thanks!
    Thanks for the reply.

    I tried doing this, but the only option available to me is 'Shrink Volume'. I can see a separate entry under Disk Management, displaying 9.32GB of Unallocated space if that provides any help?

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    Re: How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?

    What would help is a picture of your full disk management. Then we'll see.

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    Hope this helps!

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    Re: How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?

    OK, here is the problem. This little F partition is in the way. The easiest is to save the data from this partition and delete the partition. Then you get a contiguous unallocated space next to C.

    Then you can extend C. If you care to recreate the 2GB F partition, leave 2GBs for it and recreate it. Note that it was formatted in Fat32. If you ask me, I would just forget about it.

    Another problem is the Recovery partition. You really don't want that on such a small SSD. If you want to get rid of that too, post back. Getting rid of that is a bit trickier.

    And if you do not use hibernation, open an elevated command prompt (run as admin) and run this command: powercfg -h off That will save you as many GBs as you have RAM. And if you have a lot of RAM (more than 3GB), I would also resize the pagefile to 2GBs. I have done that on all my SSDs - no problem.

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    Re: How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?

    Many thanks for the tips. I shall give them a go soon and post back with the results.

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    Re: How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?

    OK, if you have any further questions, let me know. There must be too much stuff on your SSD. Apart from the recovery partition which should go, you have a lot of data in your C partition - unless you have big games installed , that is too much.

    On my SSDs that are on desktops, I have around 25GB for C - and I have a lot of programs (no games though). My user data I moved to the HDDs. On the laptops that is another story because I also have the user data on the SSD.

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