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After cloning my windows over on a new SSD and formatting and deleting the partition of the HDD it was previously on I wanted to extend the other partition on that disk to get one whole 500GB disk. Problem is I can't seem to do that in any way. If I try to do it by Disk Management it says it would have to turn the disk into dynamic, I did try that the first time but it just turned the disk dynamic without combining the partitions. I then fortunately managed to return to previous state without having to format the disk. I also tried using EaseUS partitioning Master without success. I tried creating a new partition from the unallocated space, which worked and I could now use that space. Problem again is, that I want one whole space, not two smaller ones. So I tried merging the two partitions but EaseUS has one or the other partitions greyed out in that case. What seems to be the problem here? I am aware that I could delete the data from the right partition on the screenshot and then extending the left one, but I have quite a few programs installed on it and it would really be a annoying to have to reinstall them all. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks!
Screenshot of Disk Management and the "error" : https://imgur.com/a/VMs4x
 
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Within Disk Management, you can only extend to the right. The way your partitions are, it is backwards.
But I can't see why EaseUS failed to do it.

Anyway, a possible workaround:
Do you have sufficient space on the 1TB?
If so, copy everything from the D drive (Disk 1) to the 1TB.
Delete both partitions and make it one large space.
Give the whole thing the drive letter D
Copy everything back.
The OS should not see any difference from what was on that drive originally.
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I think you had a similar problem that I had earlier. However, even if you post a URL of a screenshot of your hard-drives partitions, my firewall will block it. I'll await others to tell me what partitions and what order and what sizes they are.
 
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VMs4x

Does this work? I tried embedding a picture.
I'll just describe it in case it doesn't. Problem is with a disk 1 which look like this in Disk Management: full size is 465.76GB, its Basic and Online, right of that are its contents. First I have Unallocated space of 78.13GB with a black upper border and after that is Local Disk D of 387.64GB NTFS with blue upper border which is a Healthy (Primary partition).
Hope that helps.

 
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Within Disk Management, you can only extend to the right. The way your partitions are, it is backwards.
But I can't see why EaseUS failed to do it.

Anyway, a possible workaround:
Do you have sufficient space on the 1TB?
If so, copy everything from the D drive (Disk 1) to the 1TB.
Delete both partitions and make it one large space.
Give the whole thing the drive letter D
Copy everything back.
The OS should not see any difference from what was on that drive originally.
 
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I don't have enough space on the 1TB, but I do have enough if I spread the data from D partly on the 1TB drive and partly on my SSD and then copy all that back to D after combining the partitions. That shouldn't make a difference, I'll try it and report back.

 
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Just be sure you get everything back in the same folder structure as previous.
 
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