Windows 10: Unable to Use Unallocated Space to Extend Partition

I just cloned my 250 GB SSD to a 500 GB SSD and installed the 500 GB SSD into my laptop. There is about 228 GB that is unallocated. I want to extend the D partition to use all of this unallocated space (unless it's a good idea to leave some space unallocated)?

I've installed Minitool Partition Wizard Free. When I right click the D drive in Minitool and selected "Extend," only the C drive is available in the drop-down "Take Free Space From." The unallocated space is not available to select.

Suggestions?

TIA.




.



:)

 

No disk space / memory for W10 update 1709

if your computer has extra unallocated space, you can try to extend c drive with the unallocated space.

in disk management, you are only allowed to use the right adjacent unallocated space to extend your c drive. so, if you want to extend
c drive, you can use a professional partition manager like AOMEI Partition Assistant. in this software, you have various options, including Extend Partition Wizard, Move Partition and Resize Partition, Merge Partition. all of them can help you fix the
low disk space warning.

 

Moving the Unallocated space next to the C:/ drive partition

In disk management, you are allowed to create partition, extend partition, shrink partition, etc. However, there is no way to move partition.

according to your description, I think you want to extend your C drive. However, the unallocated space is not at the right adjacent side of C drive. Thus, you cannot extend your C drive.

To extend your C drive, I recommend you free AOMEI Partition Assistant. It offers you a feature called

Move Partition. With it, you can move unallocated space to the right adjacent to C drive. Aside by that, it offers you an easier way: extend c drive to unallocated space via Merge Partition. With this way, you do not need to move unallocated space. What's
more, you can merge C drive with any unallocated space on the disk.

 

Welcome to the forum. Its very simple first you have to move the two paritions after d to the right so the free space is next to d then you can extend d no problem

 

Thanks for the Welcome and for the reply.

Now for the stupid follow-up question; how do I move those two partitions?

 

follow the tutor How to Move/Resize Partition | MiniTool Partition Wizard Tutorial plenty of other tutors on youtube

 

@UserTen
From Minitool

• Right click on the 25GB partition (last partition)->Move/Resize, a windows popup, click and hold then drag to the end.
• Next, drag 4GB partition (next to last partition) to the end.
• Next, move the mouse cursor to the end of D drive until you see 2 vertical bars, click and drag it to the end to extend it, click OK
• On top left corner, click apply to commit the change.

 

Thanks! I'd watched the tutorial but somehow missed the fact that the partition could be dragged.

For whatever reason, there was no option to move the 4GB partition. But it was indicating that it was 100% empty. I'm not really sure why it was there but I rolled the dice and deleted it. I was able to move the remaining 25GB partition all the way to the right. After selecting Extend for the D partition, the Unallocated space was now selectable from the drop-down.

Again, thanks for the clarification.

.

 

@UserTen
FYI, the 4GB partition is not empty and was marked as "OEM" and Minitool did not recognize it. By deleting this partition, you broke the capability to restore Windows back to the original state.

 

I was unable to move it. The option was not there. Is there anyway to restore this partition?

 

Do you still have the original from 250GB ? if so:

• On the 500GB SSD, shrink 4GB from D drive by right click on D->Move/Resize, drag to the left for 4GB, click OK
• On 250GB, right click on the 4GB partition->Copy
• select 4GB unallocated partition as destination to copy to.
• click Apply.

Post back the result.

 

Yes, I still have the 250 GB SSD. I just connected it via USB.

In Minitool, when I right click the D drive and select Move/Resize, I cannot move it to the left. It is already fully left.

I still have about 30 GB that I left unallocated, to the right of D and to the left of the 25GB recovery partition. Can I used 4GB of that in this instance? If not, I'm not sure how to move 4GB of the D drive to the left.

 

You should be able to. Did you move the mouse cursor to the end of D to get 2 vertical bars then drag it to the left to shrink ?

 

I edited the above with a screenshot.

Yes, when I hover over the left carrot, it changes to two vertical bars. But nothing happens when I drag left. When I hover over the orange section, it changes to a four-way arrow and I can slide the orange section to the right, but not to the left.

 

I'm using Windows 7 and Acronis Disk Director 12 -- when I wanted to add an adjacent un-allocated space to my Data partition, I had to make that un-allocated space a volume named ToBeMerged , format that ToBeMerged as NTFS/4096 to match my data partition NTFS/4096, then merged ToBeMerged volume into the "master" volume, my D volume. Would Windows 10 require a similar operation?