Need to extend C: partition, but unallocated is not adjacent

Question

I have 4 partitions on my C: drive, in order left-to-right (on Disk Management): 579M Recovery Partition, 99.33G Boot, 100M EFI, 50G Unallocated. I want to merge the Boot partition with the Unallocated, but they are not adjacent. I've read several posts on this but I find them confusing. Is this doable? Can someone give me a simple step-by-step?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello, this is Emily.

Unfortunately you won't be able to use any Microsoft native tool to extend to partition that's not adjacent

This will need to be done via third party tool. A common free one out there is aomei partition assistant. If you do end up using their tool, they do have a tutorial for this particular scenario: https://www.diskpart.com/articles/merge-non-adj...

Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

Answer 2

You need a third party partion manager, I use EaseUS, paid for

Answer 3

Consider the following: Clean up the layout. You basically don't want an EFI System Partition located in the middle of the disk and no Recovery Partition at the beginning.

Temporarily disable recovery environment.

Delete the Recovery Partition and create an EFI System Partition.

Add boot files to the new EFI System Partition and reboot.

Delete the old EFI System Partition. Extend drive C.

Create a new Recovery Partition at the end of the disk and enable recovery environment.

Answer 4

I downloaded the Aomei partition assistant. That was quick and worked just fine. I suppose I should have extended the C: partition before creating the UEFI partition, but who knew! As a last resort, if Aomei didn't work, I could have image-restored to before I added the UEFI, extended the C: partion first, then done the UEFI partition, but I didn't need to do that,.

Volume Z, your idea would have also probably worked, but I tried Aomei before reading it.

Thanks

Answer 5

You are welcome. Hope Aomei meets the needs.