So when you find your case is not applicable with the help of Windows toolkit, you should switch to third party partition software. Let's look at a screenshot of the disk layout in Disk Management: From the figure, you see there are two unallocated spaces which are far away from each other. That's something you don't even have to think about. ClIck through the wizard and accept the default options to enlarge the partition to the maximum amount of available space. Suppose your system C drive is out of disk space, D drive is a data partition after C drive with a large amount of free space and the Operating system is Windows 7. By dragging the slider, you can decide how much free space you want to take.
There are two ways to get unallocated space: delete volume and shrink volume. In addition, if there are two unallocated spaces which are not adjacent, to combine them could also be wise for better disk space usage. Extend Volume Wizard will be opened, simply click Next to continue. Then I'm lost from there. Step 4: Click Apply on top left to execute.
If there is unallocated on hard drive, you will see it in the following pop-up window. Maybe you just want all your main hard drives grouped together or maybe you want to use a specific letter for a certain drive. One good reason for this is if you no longer use the volume. So you can create another partition now like D:, E: or any letter of your choice , but merging is not possible. Then there is already one partition for work files, you want to create a new large partition for movies with two non-adjacent unallocated spaces. I just want two partitions - C and D drives- plus the system reserved files.
I want to have the original contiguous space again. This is what my configuration looks like now. Check again in Disk Management. The longer the computer using time is, the slower it becomes. To merge them into one unallocated space and then create a large partition should be done. Step3: Click Apply to perform the operations. In this case, you need to delete that logical partition at first to make it free space.
All those problems I listed out above are often triggered by System C drive of no extra space for use. Here, we suggest using MiniTool Partition Wizard to combine two unallocated spaces. To tidy up that the simplest way may be for you to use a partition manager boot disk e. Create new partition Congratulations, now you have successfully split a disk partition into two smaller ones. This feature is not able to be used to combine two unallocated spaces. Please note the following 1, this merging requires rebooting since it is c volume involved, it wont require a rebooting if you are trying to merge partitions as long as the system c drive is not involved.
But your purpose is to merge these two unallocated spaces with the partition to extend partition. All files of D will be moved to this folder automatically. I would really appreciate some assistance on fixing this issue as I've tried everything I can currently think of. Now, let's see how to merge two unallocated spaces to make full use of disk space in Windows 10 in three different situations. Instead, you may use 3rd-party. How to delete a partition and then? There are some noticeable differences while applying the third-party software and the Windows inbuilt program, which you can refer to the conclusion part at the end of this passage.
Different with unused space in a drive, Unallocated space does not belong to any drives. For example, the first Unallocated space can be combined into drive C: and D. However, sometimes unallocated space cannot create partition issue occurs due to maximum number of partitions error. How to Join two Partitions in Windows 10. To explain better, I divided the introduction into 2 parts.
Copy all data in partition D into another safe place or all data into the image. Then after opening Windows 10 Disk Management, the two unallocated space has been combined into one. System break or even system crash happens to you and destroys everything that might be your painstaking effort. The partition D will be included into partition C. Once you have accessed it, a new window will appear where you can easily view your current disk partitions as well as some information about them see image.
And, in general, there are 3 situations you need to take into account: Note: Normally C drive is the system partition, thus it is active primary partition, which can only be extended by adding unallocated space following it in Disk Management. If you don't know how to do that, then you should keep reading this guide. Now my question is how do I merge all my partitions into one without any data loss and not disturbing my present Windows 10 installation. If you have no idea, maybe you can find the satisfying answer here. Step 1: Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition, and then you will go to the main interface. If you see that the , it's because the unallocated space produced by deleting a previous partition is not close to the selected partition. How to Merge Partitions in Windows 10 without losing data? The first thing you will need to do is decide which of the partitions you want to merge will be deleted you will lose all the data from it.