How to Move Partition to Expand C Drive without Losing Data on Windows

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.

Cannot Move Partition with Windows Built-in Tools

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.

	Disk Management	Partition Resizer (Windows)
Extend NTFS partition with contiguous unallocated space
Move partition	NO
Move recovery partition	NO
Extend FAT32 C partition	NO
Shrink partition
Clone disk/partition	NO
Upgrade OS disk to a new disk	NO
Price	FREE	FREE
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Also read: How to shrink D to extend C partition

IM-Magic Partition Resizer can help move any partition and extend the boot volume without losing data

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.

• 1, Find the E drive, right click it in the software Partition Resizer, and go to RESIZE/MOVE partition and then move its whole partition rightword. (You may click APPLY CHANGES to see the success of the E drive location alternation or you may wait the next step to batch apply changes) This following video shows how to move a partition when the OS is running.
• 2, Right click the C partition, and then go to RESIZE/MOVE to extend C partition.
• 3, Click 'Apply Changes' in the end.

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