can't join 2 partitions

shaun88

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my laptop had windows 8 on (C:), I created a partition so I could install windows 7 as a I prefer this which was E:
I went into disc management and deleted and formatted C: to get rid of windows 8, so now this partition is empty but I cant join it to E: to have just one whole HDD