Equium l40 - 10Z. Hard Drive Partition Help

A family member has a Toshiba Equium L40 - 10Z. The "Vista (C:" drive is full with a total size 55gb, but there is also an "Data (E" drive with a total size of 54gb on it which is almost empty (Someone installed the game Sims on it)
Now the problem being is that there is around 20GB worth of music linked into Itunes set up on the C drive, and they want to download more and keep it all togehter on the same drive.
Is there anyway to make the C drive bigger? I.e. remove / alter the partition size between the C and E drive?
Or do you have any better options?
As I don't realy fancy moving all the music and having to tell itunes where all the individual songs are located.
Many Thanks
~Will

A bit more thought give to the situation, I can probalby just use Itunes to move the whole Itunes media folder over to the E: Drive. Which shouold mean it would recognise the files automaticaly.
But Is there still any need to have the Hard Drive so largly seperated? If at all?

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