3000 N200 installs everything to C drive - no room left.

Hi folks. I have registered in an effort to help a friend who owns a Lenovo 3000 N200 ; the problem is that drive C (system partition, 29 Gb) is now completely full (just over 100 mb left) - whilst drive E (82Gb, data partition) is virtually empty ; my friend can no longer download photos etc., and the normal operation of windows will soon be compromised.
Is it safe to delete partition D, and then extend C using the unallocated space ? If so, would it be safer to use XP to do this, or a third party product such as Partition Magic ? I am concerned that the absence of drive/partition C might cause the recovery options to become non functioning - would this be the case do you think ?
As an added layer of complication, my friend is Hungarian, the laptop was purchased in Hungary, and therefore the installed language is Hungarian - I don't know a single word of the language, and don't see him very often.I'm guessing it isn't possible to install another language, and so would consider the use of a bootable partitioning utility of some sort ( in English!).
If anyone has any observations or advice, I would be very grateful. Thank you.

Tedco21, welcome to the forum.
The D: partition is where the Recovery data is stored. If you made the Recovery disks and know that they work, you can eliminate it. In fact, on new systems there is an option to do it in the Recovery Manager. I use external hard drives to store all of my data. This helps reduce the load on C:\.
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