This page is about how to move partitions and expand c volume without losing data on Windows 11 10 7 Server 2012 2016 2019 2022 2025.
User Case: The user needs to move the E drive to extend the C drive with the unallocated space. It's a RAID 5 user.
Solution: Move drive E using a professional tool IM-Magic Partition Resizer when Windows built-in tools cannot help move the partition, even it's the recovery or OEM partition, or system reserved partition. Data and OS will be totally untouched.
The problem: Moving partitions is not enabled in Windows using its built-in tools such as Disk Management or Diskpart cmd.
Here is a comparsion of what Disk Management can do and cannot.
Also read: How to shrink D to extend C partition
Example Video: Move partition E to expand C drive with the unallocated space
Prepartion: Download the free tool on your Windows computer, install and open it.
Note: If you want to move any partition, you can directly right click the drive and get it moved without losing data using IM-Magic Partition Resizer and then the locations of the partitions will be changed accordingly.
Also read: how to move partition in Windows 11/10, or how to move recovery partition Windows