Combine Partitions In Windows 10

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kir13y

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So I just bought a new laptop with 1TB of storage. For some reason the drive is partitioned into a 400GB (C://) and 600GB (D://). The D drive is labeled "data" and the C drive is the OS drive. Is there a way to combine these drives into one drive so that the OS has 1TB and when I install programs, they will install to the OS drive? I have tried EaseUS Partition Manager which did not allow me to combine the C and D drives. Any ideas?

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You can't merge the two partitions as they are not contiguous. The recovery partition rests between them. You might be able to reduce the size of "D:" and move the recovery partition to the end of the drive, then either extend "C:" into the now empty space, or move "D:" up into that space. At that point you should be able to merge.
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JaredDM

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Yes, first move any data from D: over to C: so that D: is empty. Then, in Drive Management (control panel > admin tools > computer management > drive management) delete that partition and extend the other one.
 
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You can't merge the two partitions as they are not contiguous. The recovery partition rests between them. You might be able to reduce the size of "D:" and move the recovery partition to the end of the drive, then either extend "C:" into the now empty space, or move "D:" up into that space. At that point you should be able to merge.
 
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kir13y

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I was able to delete the D drive but how do I extend the C drive? The "extend" right click option is greyed out on the C drive.
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In that Disk Management window, the C partition and the Unallocated partition need to be right next to each other.
 
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kir13y

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So how do I move them so that they are right next to one another?
 
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Try this:
Easus Partition Master
http://www.partition-tool.com/
 
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