Windows 10: How can I merge the C: and E: partition? I recently uninstalled an OS, and it left this...

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MERGING C WITH OTHER PARTITION(2 OSs)

Hi all!!

Here is the problem.

partiton c: win xp sp2 30GB, boots from there
partition f: win 7 sp1 16GB

I formated C, and of course the pc could not boot...(before formating, everything was fine with a boot loader giving the options to boot from either OS)

Reinstalled xp on C

installed ecb(on c) but ecb can not access boot record. Now only xp running...*Confused

What I want is to merge C with F maintainng win 7 and of course to let the pc boot normally.

Thank you!

 

Resize partition C

In order to extend C and recover space from D, you will need to delete the 866 MB Healthy Recovery Partition and the Storage D:\ partitions.

There appears to be data on the D:\ partition.

I recommend you backup any important data on that partition before deleting it. After deleting the partitions, you will be able to extend C:\

Steps:

Right click the ‘Healthy (Recovery Paritition) and the
Storage (D’ partitions in Disk Management, on the contextual menu, click the ‘Delete Volume’ option. Click ‘Yes’ when the warning dialog appears.

The Volume you deleted will now appear as ‘Free space’, you will also notice that the disk icon no longer appears in the list of volumes.

Right click the Free space partition, and click Delete, click Yes on the Disk Management warning that appears.

The volume will now appear as Unallocated. Our next step is to merge back that unallocated free space with the system partition
(C. Right click the System volume then click the ‘Extend Volume’ option on the contextual menu, click ‘Yes’ when the warning appears.

A wizard will now begin that will guide through the steps to merge back the unallocated space with your system partition.

The wizard provides a simple procedure to merge back the unallocated space with the system drive. Once you have selected the space, click Next, at the end of the wizard, you will see the amount allocated.

 

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