Question Can't Extend Partition?

[Matthew11511]

In the aftermath of upgrading to Windows 11 after finally sorting out my bootloader being on a separate drive. My new problem is I have 52.97 GB of unallocated space that I can no longer use? The extend partition is greyed out. Is there any fix to this? (Unsure of how to post a screen capture PNG, will do so if I can figure that out too)

Edit 1: I cannot delete the recovery partition between the two, as this partition is my BOOT partition, unsure why is was placed there.
Edit 2: pic of disk management. I have also tried to merge the partitions on AOMEI and when the computer restarts to merge it fails every time. Something related to BCD (i think).

 

[USAFRet]

In the aftermath of upgrading to Windows 11 after finally sorting out my bootloader being on a separate drive. My new problem is I have 52.97 GB of unallocated space that I can no longer use? The extend partition is greyed out. Is there any fix to this? (Unsure of how to post a screen capture PNG, will do so if I can figure that out too)

Edit 1: I cannot delete the recovery partition between the two, as this partition is my BOOT partition, unsure why is was placed there.

Show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.
Upload your pic to imgur.com and post the link here.

 

[Lafong]

Picture of Disk Management needed.

You may need to use a third party tool to use that unallocated space.

 

[Matthew11511]

Pic added!

 

[Lafong]

MiniTool Partition Wizard | Best partition magic alternative for Windows PC and Server

As a partition magic alternative, MiniTool Partition Wizard is the latest partition manager software that can be used to manage partitions on Windows 11/10/8/7 and Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019.

www.partitionwizard.com

Use the above tool. Disk Management won't work because the small EFI partition is in the way.

 

[Matthew11511]

MiniTool Partition Wizard | Best partition magic alternative for Windows PC and Server

As a partition magic alternative, MiniTool Partition Wizard is the latest partition manager software that can be used to manage partitions on Windows 11/10/8/7 and Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019.

www.partitionwizard.com

Use the above tool. Disk Management won't work because the small EFI partition is in the way.

MiniTool won't let me select the unallocated space. Will only let me select the adjacent box (which is my EFI boot partition)
also wont let me paste the copied link for imgur

https://imgur.com/a/M5U6CZJ

View: https://imgur.com/a/M5U6CZJ

 

[Lafong]

It's been a while since I used it, but I don't think "merge" is the operation you need.

 

[Matthew11511]

It's been a while since I used it, but I don't think "merge" is the operation you need.

I cannot extend it either. MiniTool says there's no space

 

[Lafong]

Keep poking around in various menus.

You want to add space directly to C, not "extend", not "merge". Those choices would imply to immediately adjacent space, which is not your case.

 

[Matthew11511]

Keep poking around in various menus.

You want to add space directly to C, not "extend", not "merge". Those choices would imply to immediately adjacent space, which is not your case.

Oh I figured it out! I was able to use AOMEI and "MOVE" the recovery partitions to the end of the disk, which allowed for the unallocated space to be adjacent to my main partition. This allowed me to extend the drive! Thanks for the help!

 

[Lafong]

OK;

Yeah, that's another way to do it. Disk Management is a limited tool in that way.