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I just bought a new computer that came partitioned with C being only 26GB (this is infuriating, I'm just trying to find a way around it).
How do I work around this? I have literally uninstalled EVERYTHING from C, but Creative Cloud and the App Temp files take so much space, it can't actually get anything installed on the D drive.
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Find a program to change your partition size
You MAY be able to do that within Windows
Search bar at the top of http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx to search on
change primary partition size
or other likely search terms
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A 26 GB primary drive is ridiculous. Re-partition it. Use Disk Management utilities to delete or shrink the D volume and extend the C volume. Or take the computer back to the store and get a refund.
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I agree. I'm at my wits end wanting to throw this new computer against the wall.
The problem is my partitions are set up as DISKS:
The C drive doesn't even have enough space to download a Windows Image to my USB Pin drive so I can reformat. I don't know what to do except take this thing back and eat the multiple hours I waisted pulling my hair out.
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You odn't need to reformat. You need to re-partition.
Are you on Windows 10?
This describes how to shirnk one disk and extend another.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-partition-a-hard-drive-in-windows/
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Unfortunately, as I said and the image above shows: the partitions are set up as separate disks (though it is one drive), and the only way I know to re-partition a drive separated into two disks is to completely reformat.
The instructions you sent would be helpful if I wanted to only separate one disk into two partitions, but this drive has been set into two disks with multiple partitions.
Unless there's something I'm missing, I think the only way to do that is to completely reformat. And in trying to do that I discovered the C drive doesn't even have enough space to create a Windows image
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Configure disk 1 as the boot drive and install the system there.