Windows 10: All files got corrupted during merging of two partitions!! What to do - for fixing it?

I had two partitions D: and E: drives. I took a backup of E: drive and formatted it, then unallocated in the windows disk management.





Then in the D: drive in the disk management, I gave extend volume and merged drive E: to drive D:. The merging happened properly, but the files which were already there in the drive D: - the pdfs, songs, videos, movies, pictures, virtual machine files, etc, are corrupted and it is not openable/ readable by the software.

I tried all recovery softwarepartition recovery, data recovery, check disk command with /r /f options. Nothing worked. The problem is still the same.











Please help me in recovering/ fixing those. I have those still saved in the drive. I tried even disk optimization/ defragmentation.

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Disk management can't merge two partition. (One of them was a linux based partition)

Hi Kevin,

There are different factors that can contribute as to why you not able to merge or extend the space used by a specific partition on the hard drive. one possible cause could be due to the unallocated space having a different file format. For us to resolve
your concern, kindly answer the questions below:

• Was the option "extend volume" greyed out?
• Were there any error messages when you attempted to extend or merge the unallocated space?
• What file system did you use when you formatted the partition?
• Which version and build of Windows 10 is installed on your computer?

As an initial recommendation, you can have a look at the post of Waido2525 in this
thread. His answer received 191 votes from people that have resolved their
issue following the suggested steps.

We look forward to your response to our queries.

 

Cant merge Partitions

Hi folks,
i was trying to merge a partition to another one but i couldnt, it said i didnt have GPT or that i dont have enough space to extend it, does anyone know why? there is only 1 unallocated partition im trying to merge into another partition that has files, the idea is to keep the files intact. i tried deleting it then using the extend function but nada. pls help

 

Cant merge Partitions

Move the files, backed up. Use Easeus to delete both partitions, merge, make new parition, and move files back.