The best C drive expansion tool
"TLDR: This article tells the author’s experience when looking for a C drive expansion tool. The author found that although there are many expansion software options on the market, most methods are not ideal. By using the disk management tool that comes with Windows, and trying software such as AOMEI Partition Assistant and EaseUS, the author finally chose NiuBi software because it is completely free, easy to operate, and very fast, which solved the author's problem of insufficient C drive capacity."
Since I started using a desktop computer, I rarely develop on my laptop. Today, I suddenly had to use wsl on my laptop, and found that the capacity of the laptop's C drive was seriously insufficient. For convenience, I plan to allocate 25G of the free 100G space on the D drive to the C drive.
I have searched for several methods on the Internet, but most of them are not satisfactory. I will record some useful software here to avoid wasting another afternoon looking for expansion software in the future.
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Classic method: Use the disk management tool that comes with Windows. Since this tool can only allocate adjacent space to the C drive, and my D drive already has a lot of software installed, it is very troublesome to back up the D drive software again, so I gave up.
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AOMEI Partition Assistant: This software is still very good, free to use, and has a beautiful UI. Its working principle is to use winPE to move disk space. The actual measurement is very slow. The estimated time to allocate 25G space from D drive to C drive is close to an hour, so I gave up.
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easyUS: This is also a beautiful disk software, but a bit unscrupulous. The download page said it was free to download, but it turned out that the download was only free, and usage was charged, so I gave up.
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NiuBi software: The name reveals the extraordinary flavor of this software:), Download address, completely free, easy to operate, and very fast!