how do i merge 2 partitions into one?

3gsd's · 2025-03-09T10:11:52-0400

Short story made long. I changed the 1tb ssd to a 2tb ssd in my Dell 5625 laptop using Macrium reflect. Everything works as it did. What I have now is OS (C:) and New Volume (E:) each with 1tb. What do I use to merge E into C to make a 2tb C? Would something like this work? Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Wizard Free

OAT · 2025-03-09T10:26:11-0400

3gsd's said:
Short story made long. I changed the 1tb ssd to a 2tb ssd in my Dell 5625 laptop using Macrium reflect. Everything works as it did. What I have now is OS (C:) and New Volume (E:) each with 1tb. What do I use to merge E into C to make a 2tb C? Would something like this work? Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Wizard Free

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3gsd's · 2025-03-09T12:50:24-0400

Thanks. I tried the program but I can't merge (E) with 900gb into (C) with 936gb. How do I increase (C) to 2tb? Do I delete (E)? If so, how do I increase (C)?

OAT · 2025-03-09T13:03:12-0400

3gsd's said:
Thanks. I tried the program but I can't merge (E) with 900gb into (C) with 936gb. How do I increase (C) to 2tb? Do I delete (E)? If so, how do I increase (C)?

View attachment 127805

Sorry I can't read something that small.
Did you right click on the partition and find the Merge option?
You can then select which volumes to merge.

bobkn · 2025-03-09T13:20:07-0400

3gsd's said:
Thanks. I tried the program but I can't merge (E) with 900gb into (C) with 936gb. How do I increase (C) to 2tb? Do I delete (E)? If so, how do I increase (C)?

View attachment 127805

Image is 320X200. Too small to read.

3gsd's · 2025-03-09T13:52:16-0400

hopefully this is better

3gsd's · 2025-03-09T13:57:30-0400

OAT said:
Sorry I can't read something that small.
Did you right click on the partition and find the Merge option?
You can then select which volumes to merge.

View attachment 127807I did click on it, but the program only allows merging 2 adjacent partitions. I want to merge E into C. If I delete volumes 4,5, and 6, 2 is not large enough to merge E into it. Do I delete E? Then how would I expand C to 2tb +/-?

bobkn · 2025-03-09T14:10:41-0400

3gsd's said:
hopefully this is better

View attachment 127824

Thanks. It's better.

Disk Management cannot, as far as I know, merge partitions that aren't adjacent.

I don't know whether a third-party utility could manage it, especially with only one drive in the PC.

I wonder what the partitions on the original 1TB drive looked like? I suspect that the cloning didn't go quite right. If memory serves, Macrium Reflect has the capability to clone to a larger destination drive, expanding the main partition to use all the available space. I think that the same applies to restoring an image to a larger drive, rather than a direct cloning.

SIW2 · 2025-03-09T14:30:18-0400

Disk Management cannot, as far as I know, merge partitions that aren't adjacent

As far as I know, disk managament can't merge partitions at all

The third party program in the screenshot claims it can merge adjacent partitions

3gsd's · 2025-03-09T14:39:09-0400

bobkn said:
Thanks. It's better.

Disk Management cannot, as far as I know, merge partitions that aren't adjacent.

I don't know whether a third-party utility could manage it, especially with only one drive in the PC.

I wonder what the partitions on the original 1TB drive looked like? I suspect that the cloning didn't go quite right. If memory serves, Macrium Reflect has the capability to clone to a larger destination drive, expanding the main partition to use all the available space. I think that the same applies to restoring an image to a larger drive, rather than a direct cloning.

I don't have the original ssd available right now. If I format one of the cloned ssd's and use Macrium again, how do I know if Macrium sees the new ssd as a 2tb and clones it as 1 partition and not 2? This will be next weekends project.

Fabler2 · 2025-03-09T14:46:48-0400

It's been a while since I've played around with partitions but always used Minitools Patririon Wzard.

This is how I would go about it.
First job is to create an image of the whole disk. If any data on the E: partition then backup to an external drive.

Delete the E: partition so it becomes unallocated. Apply.

Move 1.39 GB partition to end of unallocated space. Apply

Move 15.27 GB partition next to 1.39 GB partition and apply.

Move 990 MB partition next to15.27 GB partition and apply.
This should leave the unallocated space to the right of the C: partition now.

Expand the C: partition to the right.

If anything is borked then you'll have an image to restore.

Scannerman · 2025-03-09T14:58:59-0400

MiniTool Partition Wizard is the way to go with this IMO.

zbook · 2025-03-09T16:00:03-0400

Possible solution to merge the partitions:

See if you can backup files in the 15.27 GB recovery partition.
Convert this partition to unallocated
E: looks empty > convert to unallocated
Run reagentc /disable
Delete the 990 MB and 1.39 Recovery partitions > convert to unallocated
Extend C: to the end of the disk drive.
Make new partitions for Windows RE and the factory recovery partition
Restore the backed up files to the new factory recovery partition
Run reagentc /enable

SIW2 · 2025-03-09T17:16:46-0400

That is the way to do it.

1. disable winre

at admin cmd prompt:
reagentc -disable

2. In case you want something from the 15.7gb partition in the future, Make an image of the 15.7gb and store it somewhere.

3. Delete the three partitions in the red box. That should leave about 17.5gb Unallocated space where those partitions used to be.

4. Extend C to incorporate the 17.5gb unallocated space

5. Now you can merge C and E

6. shrink the now bigger C from the right by about 1.5gb

7. Create a MS recovery partition from 1.5gb unallocated space

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