How to merge two non-adjacent partitions?

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DarK_FirefoX

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Hi, i tried searching in the forum before I posted but didn't find anything that suits my needs.

The basic issue I have is the one on the tittle:

How to merge two non-adjacent partitions?

I'll explain why:

I have an HDD that was failing and after scanning it for bad sectors I saw it had some bad sectors. After several fail attempts to repair them (in case they were magnetic problems) using HDD Regenerator, I thought of creating a partition to group all of the bad sectors into a hidden partition (no accessible by the OS), but after seeing the Drive Map for the failing/healthy sectors I was sure it was almost impossible to do it manually.

So I came across (after researching for a while) with an application (RepartitionBadDrive) that creates partitions automatically among the failing sectors using the healthy sectors to create partitions and leaving the failing sectors in unallocated space.

The problem is that it created an extended partitions with around 40 logical partitions, but none of them are adjacent. They are like:

[HEALTHY PARTITION] [UNALLOCATED SPACE] [HEALTHY PARTITION] [UNALLOCATED SPACE] ... [HEALTHY PARTITION] [UNALLOCATED SPACE]

So, What I want to know is if I can merge those healthy partition (again - non adjacent) into 1 or more in order to reduce the number of partitions?

If it can't be done, please provide me with some advice of what I can do to be able to use as much space as I can.

The total sum of all the healthy space is around 1.7 TB, cause it is a 2 TB external HDD.

Thanks in advance for your effort to help me.

PS: This is my first post in this forum/community. I hope it is well written as English is not my first language.
 
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Your English is great!

I think you can span disks in Disk Management, but I'm not sure if it will be remembered when you move it to another PC.

Using failing disks is generally a bad idea, as the failure tends to accelerate as time goes on. And this is your disk's warning that total failure is going to happen soon.

I'd suggest trying to get it replaced under warranty - this is a pretty clear case of when they should honour it, assuming it's not expired.
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Your English is great!

I think you can span disks in Disk Management, but I'm not sure if it will be remembered when you move it to another PC.

Using failing disks is generally a bad idea, as the failure tends to accelerate as time goes on. And this is your disk's warning that total failure is going to happen soon.

I'd suggest trying to get it replaced under warranty - this is a pretty clear case of when they should honour it, assuming it's not expired.
 
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Thanks! :)



Well, I can indeed use Disk Management to span the partitions, but i´m not really sure if it will leave the unallocated space unused and use the healthy partition instead, will it?

Creating those forty(something) partition was a long process and i´d hate it to do it again.

Also, I think it will remember if I span the partitions because that info will be stored in the HDD, right?

The HDD started failing due to Power loss (regularly for a couple of weeks) (i think), now I have installed an UPS so it shouldn't fail again.



I will check if the warranty hasn't expired, but shipping it back would be difficult, cause someone got it for me in another country.

Thanks for replying, I´ll keep waiting if someone come up with another solution.
 
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i´m not really sure if it will leave the unallocated space unused and use the healthy partition instead, will it?
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It should do that.

Also, I think it will remember if I span the partitions because that info will be stored in the HDD, right?
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Not sure. I'm pretty sure RAID won't work unless you set it up on each machine; a spanned disk should be the same...

The HDD started failing due to Power loss (regularly for a couple of weeks) (i think), now I have installed an UPS so it shouldn't fail again.
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Power loss shouldn't cause hardware damage, only software.

Can you download CrystalDiskInfo and post a screenshot of its report?
 
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Maybe, but how can I be sure! I hope you understand what I mean. I mean that somehow I virtually merge those partition, cause I need to still use the actual partitions (same LBA).

For instance:

Partition 1[Start LBA(0) - End LBA(4)](HEALTHY) - Partition 2[Start LBA(5) - End LBA(10)](ILL) - Partition 3[Start LBA(11) - End LBA(15)](HEALTHY)

And I want to know if somehow this can be achieved after mergin or moving or something else:

MERGE{ [Partition 1[Start LBA(0) - End LBA(4)](HEALTHY) - Partition 3[Start LBA(11) - End LBA(15)](HEALTHY) }
- Partition 2[Start LBA(5) - End LBA(10)](ILL) -



Then! But what could have happened?



This is the CrystalDiskInfo Report:

crystal.jpg


Please, let me know what you see here!

Any advice will do!

Thanks in advance
 
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