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ChuckR

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On my SSD my System Reserved File is 100mb, the default. The C: partition has 42.58 GB free. The H: is full and keeps telling me it is full.
What steps can I use to move space to H: so I can enlarge it to 500mb?
I found that I can Shrink C: but does this automatically be available to expand H:
 

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I found that I can Shrink C: but does this automatically be available to expand H:. It looks like I have 6766 mb available to shrink. If I shrink it to 6377mb will the 400mb become available to H:?
 
I found that I can Shrink C: but does this automatically be available to expand H:. It looks like I have 6766 mb available to shrink. If I shrink it to 6377mb will the 400mb become available to H:?
 
I had the computer built and there it was a few years ago. I don't actually need to move it, My Mistake. I just need to expand it.
I want to be sure that Shrinking C: will allow H: partition to expand on an SSD.
Windows 7 Professional 64bit keeps sending messages that it doesn't have space there.
 
Why does your System Reserve partition even have a drive letter assigned to it? That is not normal.

I agree with plodr and you should leave it alone.

The H: is full and keeps telling me it is full.
Click to expand...
What is telling you it is full?
 
I don't want to add or remove anything from it. I only want to expand the space it uses.
I was in China when this was built. From my investigation, it should be hidden. It is NOT. It has an H: for the partition.
The System Reserved space should not be accessible from Windows Explorer. Mine Is.
I don't know how they installed it, but it looks and acts like a normal partition. This is what lead me to believe I should
be able to Shrink C: and Expand H:.
Are you familiar with AOMEI Software?????
 
Hi,

Is your computer running Windows 7?

Like Plodr pointed the default size of this partition on Windows 7 is 100MB and you should not change that.

What you need to do is to identify what is stored on that partition that shouldn't be there, some programs create files inside leaving the partition full and this can cause problems to the system because it expects to have some free space there to use...

Open the Command Prompt as Administrator and copy & paste the following command:
dir /S /A h:\ >"%userprofile%\Desktop\out.txt"

A new file called out.txt will appear on the Desktop please attach the file to your post.
 
Hi,

Some software you use created Snapshots on the system reserved partition, it could be some software that you already removed because the files stored on h:\snapshots are from 2016, you should delete this folder then use the Disk Manager to remove the drive letter assigned to the system reserved partition, right click on the partition and click Change Drive letter and paths, remove the drive H:
 
Removing the drive letter ensures future, similar issues do not occur. It protects System Reserved from being filled by files through various apps. It also prevents you from accidentally storing personal files on that partition.
 
Looking through H: I saw a lot of files from 2009 and 2015. Your thought on some non-system Apps placing them there makes sense.
At one time I looked into programming and loaded and unloaded related files. I now have 12 C++ programs listed.
Thanks for the support and have a good day.
 
ChuckR said:
Looking through H: I saw a lot of files from 2009 and 2015. Your thought on some non-system Apps placing them there makes sense.
Click to expand...

Yes the other older files are expected to be there, they belong to the system.
I know that some backup programs use that partition in some situations...

At one time I looked into programming and loaded and unloaded related files. I now have 12 C++ programs listed.
Thanks for the support and have a good day.
Click to expand...

You are welcome.
 
A question on 12 C++ pgm's. How would you find who needs to have all of them installed or which one?
General question
Thanks.
P.S. Our middle son is married to a woman whose family comes from Portugal. Lovely country and people.
 
ChuckR said:
A question on 12 C++ pgm's. How would you find who needs to have all of them installed or which one?
Click to expand...

I suppose you are referring to the C++ Runtimes.
Microsoft is start to looking on that and it seems future versions will support and replace the old ones but for now I don't know a way to find the versions you need besides running every program, some show an error about some dll missing others will simply crash because of the missing runtime!

The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages are small and don't create problems I would leave them there even if if I know I removed one program that install it because there are other that use them.

P.S. Our middle son is married to a woman whose family comes from Portugal. Lovely country and people.
Click to expand...

Thanks. ;)
 

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