How to Make C Drive BIGGER IN WINDOWS 10 (System Partition)

This article is about how to Make C Drive bigger in Windows 10 (system partition). If you are running low on disk space on your system drive, first of all, it is recommended not to install too many software and programs on your C drive.

How to Make C Drive BIGGER IN WINDOWS 10 (System Partition)

• Method 1: By taking space from the adjacent drive
• Method 2: Using a large SSD like C Drive

Method 1: Extend the C drive by taking space from an adjacent drive

In Windows 10, you are allowed to extend the C drive by taking unallocated space from an adjacent drive (eg D:) to make it bigger.

In general, there may be no unallocated space on the peripheral drive, but you may consider deleting the peripheral drive to create unallocated space. This is the step.

Step 1: Backup data to D drive.

Since in the next step, you will need to delete the entire D partition in order to split the Unallocated space, you should back up your important data stored in the D drive first.

If you have any software installed on drive D, you will need to back them up first and reinstall. them when you’re done expanding the C drive.

If you want to backup the entire D drive, it’s a good idea to use backup software like cloner.

Step 2: Delete the D drive to create free space

1. Open Disk Management in Windows 10, right-click the drive (D:) next to the C drive and select the Delete Volume option.

2. When the Simple Delete dialog box appears, click Yes to continue.

3. After deleting D partition, unallocated space is created behind C partition.

Step 3: Extend the C drive to expand it

1. Right-click the C drive and select the Extend Volume option.

2. When the Volume Extension Wizard appears, click Next to continue.
3. Select all the spaces you want to add to drive C and click Next.

4. Finally, click Next to complete the process. Then you will see C drive is bigger. You did it.

Summary: As you can see, this method helps you expand C drive, but it costs to delete another drive (D:). If you don’t backup data properly, you may lose some data from D drive.

Method 2: Mount the C drive using a larger SSD as the C drive

If the above method can’t help you solve your problem and your C drive is running out of space, please consider using a larger SSD as your Windows 10 OS drive, which won’t overcrowd your C drive higher, but also will improve performance and. all sides. from your computer.

Step 1: Install a larger SSD in your PC.

To get a bigger system drive (C drive), you can buy 160GB/200GB/256GB SSD according to your own needs and install it in your computer.

After installing the SSD on your PC, go to Disk Management to initialize it and create a new volume on it.

Step 2: Move Windows 10 C to a larger SSD.

You can do a clean install of Windows 10 on a new SSD and once the installation is complete, the SSD will be your system drive (C drive).

But it takes a long time and causes you to lose data on C drive.

To save time and avoid data loss, you can copy/clone Windows 10 C drive directly to SSD from old hard drive. Cloner can help you do that easily.

1. Download Cloner for free, install and run it on your Windows 10.

2. Choose the Copy option.

Select C drive as source, select SSD as destination, and click Start to copy Windows 10 C drive to larger SSD.

Copy C drive to SSD

Step 3: Configure your PC to boot from SSD.

After moving Windows 10 C drive to SSD, restart your PC and go to boot menu or BIOS settings to set SSD as the first boot device.

Then your computer will boot from the SSD and use it as the C drive (operating system drive). That’s it.

In this way, you will get a large C drive in your Windows 10.