- Dec 30, 2013
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Hello,
I am new to the concept of hard drive partitions and I fear I have made a mistake; after allocating ~150GB for Steam files, which turned out to be far too little, I am now unable to update Steam as I have only 50MB left (Steam requires at least 250MB of space to update). Realizing partitioning was pointless, I copied by Steam files back to the Primary partition (1TB drive, only 766GB usable now) and now I have a 150GB Logical Partition that's empty (as I formatted it) and I want to combine it back to the original Primary partition.
*I don't care about any data loss on the Logical partition, everything was backed up*
The problem is windows does not give me an option to Extend the Primary Drive into the the 150GB partition and reclaim it, either as a free space or a different volume.
I would like to merge back a 150GB Logical Partition, but Disk Management is no help. What steps should I take to revert the damage?
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Here is the option i get while the 150GB partition is a usable volume...
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...and here it is while it's seen as free space.
Both are dead ends for me.
I know I can shrink the partition to a few MG of space and give the rest 149.999GB of data to the Primary Hard drive, but I'd rather a more professional solution than a boot-leg one.
Also, I have not yet attempted to delete the partition to regain the space. As I stated before, I am not as knowledgeable in Hard-drives than i am in other components, and I do not know if the sectors in that partition will be permanently unusable for the hard-drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
TL,DR: I need to combine a logical partition back to the (original) primary partition.
I am new to the concept of hard drive partitions and I fear I have made a mistake; after allocating ~150GB for Steam files, which turned out to be far too little, I am now unable to update Steam as I have only 50MB left (Steam requires at least 250MB of space to update). Realizing partitioning was pointless, I copied by Steam files back to the Primary partition (1TB drive, only 766GB usable now) and now I have a 150GB Logical Partition that's empty (as I formatted it) and I want to combine it back to the original Primary partition.
*I don't care about any data loss on the Logical partition, everything was backed up*
The problem is windows does not give me an option to Extend the Primary Drive into the the 150GB partition and reclaim it, either as a free space or a different volume.
I would like to merge back a 150GB Logical Partition, but Disk Management is no help. What steps should I take to revert the damage?
http://
Here is the option i get while the 150GB partition is a usable volume...
http://
...and here it is while it's seen as free space.
Both are dead ends for me.
I know I can shrink the partition to a few MG of space and give the rest 149.999GB of data to the Primary Hard drive, but I'd rather a more professional solution than a boot-leg one.
Also, I have not yet attempted to delete the partition to regain the space. As I stated before, I am not as knowledgeable in Hard-drives than i am in other components, and I do not know if the sectors in that partition will be permanently unusable for the hard-drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
TL,DR: I need to combine a logical partition back to the (original) primary partition.
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