(SOLVED) Windows 7 won't let me extend partitions

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ThatGuy94

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I just recently upgraded my laptop's hard drive from a 500 GB drive to a 1 TB hybrid drive and I just copied a disk image from my old hard drive to my new one so I didn't have to go through the trouble and reinstall Windows, reinstall my programs and copy my files over. While I was able to successfully re-image my computer, I can't extend it to the other 250 GB I have available (I created the Windows 10 partition after I upgraded the hard drive). When I click to extend my C drive, the option to extend is greyed out (It was also doing that before I installed Windows 10). Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix these issues

Here is a screenshot of my problem. My temporary workaround was I created a third partition as a storage partition

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Solandri

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The free space has to be adjacent to your C: partition for you to be able to extend. It looks like you've got a 449 MB partition and the Windows 10 partition in between your C: drive and the 250GB of empty space.

Assuming the 449 MB partition is somehow related to Win 10, you'll have to delete it and Win 10 before you can extend it. Then reinstall Win 10.

If you install Partition Wizard as suggested above, you can move the Win 10 partition to the end of the empty space. Then move the 449 MB partition so it's adjacent to the Win 10 partition. That will place the 250GB free space right after the C: partition, and you'll be able to extend. However, moving partitions usually takes a lot more time than copying the partition to an external drive, then copying it back to the location where you want it.
 
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ThatGuy94

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Thank you. I used Partition Wizard to reallocate the most of the extra space to C (I saved 100 GB so I can install Ubuntu again). The 449 MB partition was a reserve partition that was on my computer since day one but it have given me issues in the past partitioning my old hard drive also because it doesn't allow me to format it or delete that partition. I was able to move the partitions around and got all the partitions straighten away

EDIT: While this did work and Windows 7 is still in tact and fully functioning, moving the Windows 10 partition did damage the Windows 10 OS and has left it in an unusable state. It will boot into it, but it will start throwing up tons of errors when attempting to log in and it will not ever log in. Due to sfc is currently broken in Windows 10, I am running a chkdsk to see if I can get it to work again

EDIT 2: Chkdsk didn't fix it, but that disk is highly fragmented after I moved it. I'm running a defrag before I go to a last resort and reinstall. I'd only recommend this method if you were moving a partition with only data on it as the data can still be found, but it will cause trouble if you are moving a partition with an OS on it.
 
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