{"id":30400,"date":"2018-02-24T16:12:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=30400"},"modified":"2018-02-24T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T16:12:57","slug":"home-computer-use-computer-maintenance-windows-disk-management-how-to-use-unallocated-space-on-a-storage-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-computer-maintenance-windows-disk-management-how-to-use-unallocated-space-on-a-storage-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use, computer maintenance, Windows: disk management: how to use unallocated space on a storage device"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Home computer use, for me, leads to constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares a video about Windows disk management that he was lucky to find.<\/h1>\n<p>My experience: On an external hard drive, if Windows calls a part of it &#8220;unallocated&#8221;, you can&#8217;t store there.<\/p>\n<p>What if you need the unallocated space? One option is to extend the adjacent partition (assuming it&#8217;s functional) so that it annexes the unallocated space for use.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TsjDR16rbjk\">this video<\/a>, David shows how to extend a useful partition so that it overtakes the unallocated space, making it, too, available for storage.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home computer use, for me, leads to constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares a video about Windows &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-computer-maintenance-windows-disk-management-how-to-use-unallocated-space-on-a-storage-device\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use, computer maintenance, Windows: disk management: how to use unallocated space on a storage device<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2295,1073,1009,626,1,1141],"tags":[2766,2765,472],"class_list":["post-30400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-maintenance","category-computer-skills","category-home-computer-use","category-microsoft-windows","category-uncategorized","category-windows-2","tag-how-to-extend-a-partition","tag-how-to-use-unallocated-drive-space","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30400"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30443,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions\/30443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}