Equium L40-17M Disc partition re-balancing

I have a Toshiba Equium L40-17M (UK) laptop where the pre-formatted C drive is almost full, showing 2.48Gb free, and occasionally the disc full message appears.
In my opinion, I don't have that much software installed, over and above the pre-installed Vista, Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader and a few other fairly small items. I've defragged the drive, used disc cleanup and got rid of any surplus items.
The E drive (on the same disc) is showing 16.9Gb free, which is fine, as I don't have a requirement for much more file space.
Having looked at the Disk Management options for both drives, I can see Shrink Volume, but not Expand Volume.
My question is this: If I shrink the E drive, will the space released be automatically added to the C drive?
Regards
Pete

I think the free space will not automatically added to drive C but try it. If the free space will not automatically added to drive C you can added manually.
Furthermore I have found an interesting article on the Toshiba website about the new Disk Management tool from Windows Vista:
http://195.182.196.33/kb0/TSB7101OB0006R01.htm
And if you ask Google, Im sure that you will find more articles about this. ;)

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