Move or Rearrange Your Hard Drive Partitions in Windows

For most hard drive formatting, partitioning and drive letter changing tasks you can use the built in Windows Disk Management utility. But if you need to do something like extend your system partition then you might not be able to if there is another partition between the system volume and the new disk space you have allocated to that hard drive.
Fortunately, there is a free tool called Niubi Partition Manager that will allow you to move your partitions to different locations, allowing you to do things such as extend your C drive with your new space. Just make sure to backup your data before running a tool like this just in case!
Here is a link to download the software
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Here is a step by step writeup on the process.
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​@@OnlineComputerTipscan I move my left partition? It doesn't have data and system.

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What a life saver you are! NIUBI saved me hours of aggravation in doing the task of moving unallocated space to where I could use it. I had 167.67 gigaybytes I wanted to move so I could allocate them to the C drive, but the damn Recovery Partition was in the way. It went slick! Took me all of 30 seconds to get the task done. Thanks so much! I wish all RUclips videos were so concise and straight to the point. You are to be commended. I'm subscribing now. - Richie

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Video is straight to the point! Thanks, man. Worked like a charm. I had two partitions on one SSD: one was for system files and another for games. Moved some space to the system partition safely.

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Amazing video! After cloning my M.2 to a larger size, discovered that the recovery partition is located between the boot partition and the unallocated volume. It took only few seconds to rearrange the partitions and claim the unallocated space. Thank you very much. This is a 5 stars video.

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Wow, this is fantastic. I've been looking to do this for MONTHS and couldn't find a free resource. I'm genuinely shocked this was so simple. Thank you so much!

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Worked for me! I cloned my MSI 15M SSD and had 2 partitions after the Windows partition that blocked me from increasing the size. Niubi free portable allowed me to move the partitions to the end of the drive after which I was able to expand the Windows partition to take up most of the new drive. Thanks a million!

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Very nice video, exactly what i needed after just cloning my SSD for a larger size, but having the unallocated space in the wrong place 😖 thank you!! 👍

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This tutorial was priceless! What this video did in 3 min with Niubi saved my nvme upgrade from dud to usable space!! Thanks a million!!

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im so glad for this video everyone else was just deleting the partition which i didn't wanna do since i just had to use it. glad that someone had the same thought process

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GREAT!! Just what I was looking for, I could not extend my C drive because I had 2 "space blocks" in between, and I did not know they were to be side by side, thanks a lot!!

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Almost cried, my SSD was being buggy, and I had to reset my PC, but this helped me finish the job, thank you.

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Yeah that software is great. The clone tool also does a good job and is also easy to use.
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Thank you so much. This is the fastest way to move partitions in Windows. You saved me a lot of time and hassle. Thanks again.

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Absolute life saver! Thank you for your amazing video helped me find software that was actually free as advertised

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so far it has worked well, will try a reboot and see if it works well. Thanks.
I rebooted and it still works. Thank you for sharing this tip.

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when you rebooted it did it delete any info or whatever or was it just a regular restart ?

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@@marwanislam-so4hg it was a regular start. A little slower, but subsequent restarts were normal speed. The size used was the same.

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Worked for me. Thank you, sir.

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Thank you for this video, all the other guides I read told me to pay for software in order todo this

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Thank you so much. I bought a bigger SSD for my w10, cloned it but Macrium didn't show the option to increase the cloned partition size to use the whole disk, maybe because I'm using the free version. I ran into exactly this problem, you solved it, thank you very much!!!!! Liked and following.

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Thank you so much I've been trying to fix my drive partition on my old laptop for ages!

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Straight to the point! Thaaaaanks!

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I found out that you have to convert your disk from dynamic to basic. Then it works perfect. and free. Thanks.

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It worked! Thank you!

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[@pappawsnothingbettertodovi1985]

This program would not allow me to "move" a portion. Only resize. in 2023 unless I am missing something.

[@user-su8dt9lr6k]

Same trouble here did u ever find a solution?

[@shahedc514]

Try this… select “copy” for the volume you want to move. Make sure you have unallocated space available. Then you should be able to slide it across and move it. After that, you can delete the original partition. Hope this helps.

[@manjeetapatel2916]

​​are you saying that you can only move it over an unallocated partition

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this actually worked for me and i loved it. THANK YOU SO MUCH

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Thanks, this helped a lot. Though PC had to be restarted to apply changes, everything else was the same.

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Legend ,, thanks mate worked for me .. the thing is there are many 3rd party apps that can be used to move/resize partions but most of them are not free .. this one was free (using link in describtion).

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Nicely explained. Yesterday i had this issue, and now i got the answer ;) Thx

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Worked as u showed, but strangely not on all my drives.... but better than nothing! thanks alot

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bro all the hard work I did for nothing, this video is superhelpful
On my external hard drive i had two partitions of both 1tb but I wanted the right one to have 0,5 and the left one 1,5, but when i shrank volume the unallocated space was on the right

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Worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

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Thank you so much, i've been having this problem for a year....

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Thanks! way quicker than booting into an ubuntu live usb and running gparted...

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[@Larry821]

I've done this sort of thing; it works fine. But the nuisance I've experienced is that diskpart's volume numbers (NOT volume ID's) did not change. In other words if I have three partitions, and swap the last two, the partitions would be numbers 1,2,3 in the physical order the partitions exist on the disk, but the *volume* numbers would be 1,3,2 as they were originally assigned when the partitions were created. diskpart's list vol shows items in volume number sequence, while list part shows them in partition number (physical) sequence. It's confusing and you really have to be careful. I haven't found a way to change the volume numbers but I'm still looking.

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[@csicee]

This error it gives me: Assertion failure (D:\Max\Work\projects\dm\ui\commn\actionsMgr.pas, line 56)

[@Arrow8D]

dosnt work the thing dosnt let me move my unalocated space that is all the way to the left and let me move it next to the c drive so i can merge the two

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Thanks .. My problem solved... 👍

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