Windows 10: Merge Two Partititons Between Recovery Partition

Hi, I just bought an SSD (Samsung 850 EVO) and I want to use my old HDD (WDC Black 1TB) for games. Right now my old HDD has 2 unallocated spaces and a 'Recovery Partition' between them. How can I merge all of them into 1 partitions (1TB)?

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Please help, thanks *Smile

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Unallocated Disk Space Windows 10

The two partitions Must be next to each other to merge them. The recovery partition is in between the C: drive and the unallocated partition. First you will have to merge the unallocated partition with the recovery partition and then you should be able to
merge the new merged partitions with your C: partition to make one Big partition. You might want to backup anything you have on your Recovery partition first and then format it. Don't know what program your using to do this but Aomie Partition Assistant is
a good one and it's Free from the link below.

Download Magic Free Partition Manager Software - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard

 

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Looking at the picture you posted, that is the normal setup on a GPT disk. On a MBR disk, the recovery partition is at the end so it can be merged with the c: partition.

GPT requires the two partitions in between so there really is not a way to merge the recovery partition to your c:

If this really bothers you the only way around this would be to change your GPT disk to MBR and keep a recovery DVD or flash card for re-installation.

 

It seems Disk 1 is empty. If so, then simply reformat the drive. Else, you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard to sort disk partitions

 

Thanks for your reply *Smile

Yes, Disk 1 is empty except for 450MB 'Recovery Partition'. I can't delete that recovery partition and thus, cannot format the disk into single, 1TB partition. How to use MiniTool Partition Wizard to solve this?

 

Install Minitool Partition Wizard Free, click on that recovery partition, select delete then click the Apply button on the top rhs. You should then be able to merge the remaining partitions and format the drive using MPW.

 

You could just do this.

From an admin command prompt type

diskpart

select disk 1

clean

create partition primary

select partition 1

format fs=ntfs quick

assign

exit

exit

and drive will be fully ready to use.

 

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thank you very much. solved it under 3 minutes *Smile

 

It is well worth learning how to use diskpart.

 

MiniTool Partition Wizard is very handy if your prefer not to use DISKPART.