Hard Disk Drive Partitioning issue

denver2020 · Aug 15, 2015

I recently wanted to increase the space on my C Drive by utilizing the available space in Drive D.

I did this by using EaseUS Partition Master. I shrank Drive D by 20 GB and extended C Drive using this free space.

However, The C drive has now been extended but it is now a continuous partition . please refer image below

Is this kind of partitioning ok to have. Would it slow my performance.
How can i revert back from this change.

WyomingKnott · Aug 15, 2015

Holy spumoni! The image doesn't show for me for some reason, but if you look at https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=6D70545A02420120!567&authkey=!ABQyLQ1M2sy_rcA&v=3&ithint=photo%2cPNG you will see that he means discontiguous, not continuous. The drive shows the C drive in two segments with the D drive in the middle.

Clearly it shrunk D by 20 GB on the right, but I didn't know that you could then join them. You needed to shrink D by 20 GB on the left.

USAFRet · Aug 15, 2015

Can't see the image.

oops...now I can

2 partitions labeled C?
I'd have to see that after a reboot

Someone Somewhere · Aug 15, 2015

You've spanned the drive. Sometimes this is done to connect multiple drives together if neither perforrmance or redundancy is an issue, but I haven't seen it done with multiple partitions on one drive.

It shouldn't perform too badly, though random reads will suffer a bit because the head has to move over the D: partition in the middle.

However, if something goes wrong on your Windows install, it could be rather difficult to copy the data off.

WyomingKnott · Aug 17, 2015

Many thanks, SS. I was deeply puzzled by that partitioning. The answer to "How did he do that?" was indeed "He did not." Just as your .sig says.

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