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[Shackeng]

I need to move unallocated space on my laptop D drive to allow me to extend my c drive. Can anyone recommend a good freeware partition editor? 

[aaronjb]

I need to move unallocated space on my laptop D drive to allow me to extend my c drive. Can anyone recommend a good freeware partition editor? 

For which OS? (IIRC you were trialling Linux recently - gparted should work just fine there and it's installed by default in most distros)

[Shackeng]

I need to move unallocated space on my laptop D drive to allow me to extend my c drive. Can anyone recommend a good freeware partition editor? 

For which OS? (IIRC you were trialling Linux recently - gparted should work just fine there and it's installed by default in most distros)

Sorry, i omitted it is Win7
Not got around to using Linux properly, just to extract files from non-booting PC to my limited space laptop. I have extra space on the laptop D drive which was FAT 32 & converted to NTFS, but i have to move its unallocated space before i can use it for the C drive. I hope that makes sense.

[Entwood]

minitool parition wizard (free home user version) has managed to most of what I've ever needed ..

https://www.partitionwizard.com/

[TheBoy]

Windows can do it itself (certainly Pro, would need to check Home)

Back up D:
Delete D:
Extended C: from the inbuilt disk management tool
Recreate D if required (who is daft enough in this day and age to split a drive?)
Restore files

[Shackeng]

Windows can do it itself (certainly Pro, would need to check Home)

Back up D:
Delete D:
Extended C: from the inbuilt disk management tool
Recreate D if required (who is daft enough in this day and age to split a drive?)
Restore files

The reason I have not tried this is that the D drive volume is ACERDATA. I have backed these files up externally however, so is it OK to put them in the C drive, then delete the D.

[TheBoy]

Depends what the files are.  The volume name means nothing (though implies its the most unreliable brand out there)

[Shackeng]

Depends what the files are.  The volume name means nothing (though implies its the most unreliable brand out there)

As they are on the D drive on their own, I assumed they are system files. 

[Shackeng]

I bought this ACER Extensa 5220 years ago to use as a backup if my PC failed. Unfortunately it was only running XP. I have since upgraded it to 7 but it does not have the space on the C drive to cope with all the files I have ‘rescued’ from the dormant PC. Hence my efforts to utilise the 29gb of unused space on the D drive. I also need to increase the RAM as it only uses one of its 2 slots at 1Gb. Unfortunately it seems I can only double it to 2Gb. 

[TheBoy]

Depends what the files are.  The volume name means nothing (though implies its the most unreliable brand out there)

As they are on the D drive on their own, I assumed they are system files. 

Hard to say without some examples...

[TheBoy]

I bought this ACER Extensa 5220 years ago to use as a backup if my PC failed. Unfortunately it was only running XP. I have since upgraded it to 7 but it does not have the space on the C drive to cope with all the files I have ‘rescued’ from the dormant PC. Hence my efforts to utilise the 29gb of unused space on the D drive. I also need to increase the RAM as it only uses one of its 2 slots at 1Gb. Unfortunately it seems I can only double it to 2Gb. 

The laptop I am typing this on now only has 2Gb, runs Win10 Pro, old Core2 Duo CPU.  It handles day to day tasks fine, it struggles only with CPU intensive chores, such as websites laden with ads, such as egay.

[LC0112G]

I bought this ACER Extensa 5220 years ago to use as a backup if my PC failed. Unfortunately it was only running XP. I have since upgraded it to 7 but it does not have the space on the C drive to cope with all the files I have ‘rescued’ from the dormant PC. Hence my efforts to utilise the 29gb of unused space on the D drive. I also need to increase the RAM as it only uses one of its 2 slots at 1Gb. Unfortunately it seems I can only double it to 2Gb. 

If it's running the 32 bit versions of WinXP or Win7 then upgrading to 2GB memory is probably cheap and worth it. No point in going above 4GB though - that's the theoretical maximum for 32 bit Windows, and in reality you probably can't use more than about 3GB because much of the memory above 3GB is reserved for system use - BIOS and graphics usually.

This laptop (DELL Vostro 1720 Core2 Duo running Win7Pro-32) has 4GB installed, but only 2.96GB is useable according to the control panel.

[aaronjb]

I bought this ACER Extensa 5220 years ago to use as a backup if my PC failed. Unfortunately it was only running XP. I have since upgraded it to 7 but it does not have the space on the C drive to cope with all the files I have ‘rescued’ from the dormant PC. Hence my efforts to utilise the 29gb of unused space on the D drive. I also need to increase the RAM as it only uses one of its 2 slots at 1Gb. Unfortunately it seems I can only double it to 2Gb. 

The laptop I am typing this on now only has 2Gb, runs Win10 Pro, old Core2 Duo CPU.  It handles day to day tasks fine, it struggles only with CPU intensive chores, such as websites laden with ads, such as egay.

With such high specs as that, this sounds like it would be right up your street:
https://store.pine64.org/?product=14%E2%80%B3-pinebook-pro-linux-laptop-ansi-us-keyboard-estimated-dispatch-in-december-2019&attribute_pa_power-supply=eu 

[Shackeng]

I bought this ACER Extensa 5220 years ago to use as a backup if my PC failed. Unfortunately it was only running XP. I have since upgraded it to 7 but it does not have the space on the C drive to cope with all the files I have ‘rescued’ from the dormant PC. Hence my efforts to utilise the 29gb of unused space on the D drive. I also need to increase the RAM as it only uses one of its 2 slots at 1Gb. Unfortunately it seems I can only double it to 2Gb. 

If it's running the 32 bit versions of WinXP or Win7 then upgrading to 2GB memory is probably cheap and worth it. No point in going above 4GB though - that's the theoretical maximum for 32 bit Windows, and in reality you probably can't use more than about 3GB because much of the memory above 3GB is reserved for system use - BIOS and graphics usually.

This laptop (DELL Vostro 1720 Core2 Duo running Win7Pro-32) has 4GB installed, but only 2.96GB is useable according to the control panel.

Win7 64 bit and just doubled RAM to 2gb.   

[TheBoy]

I bought this ACER Extensa 5220 years ago to use as a backup if my PC failed. Unfortunately it was only running XP. I have since upgraded it to 7 but it does not have the space on the C drive to cope with all the files I have ‘rescued’ from the dormant PC. Hence my efforts to utilise the 29gb of unused space on the D drive. I also need to increase the RAM as it only uses one of its 2 slots at 1Gb. Unfortunately it seems I can only double it to 2Gb. 

If it's running the 32 bit versions of WinXP or Win7 then upgrading to 2GB memory is probably cheap and worth it. No point in going above 4GB though - that's the theoretical maximum for 32 bit Windows, and in reality you probably can't use more than about 3GB because much of the memory above 3GB is reserved for system use - BIOS and graphics usually.

This laptop (DELL Vostro 1720 Core2 Duo running Win7Pro-32) has 4GB installed, but only 2.96GB is useable according to the control panel.

Win7 64 bit and just doubled RAM to 2gb.   

For 64bit, I would normally recommend more than 4Gb. 64bit is less efficient with memory than 32 bit.

General rule of thumb:
32bit - 2Gb-3.5Gb
64bit - > 6Gb

3.5 - 6Gb is no mans land really.