Extend Main Partition As Basic Drive?

yami759

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Dec 1, 2013
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Hello. I've been trying to upgrade my hard drive and used Macrium Reflect to clone my drive to an old laptop's. Now, there is unallocated space left on the dirve, so I attempted to extend it. However, when doing this, it seems that, as it detects there is already 4 partitions (3 + 1 unallocated), and as you cannot have more than 4 partitions on a basic drive (I am not trying to make a 5th partition, however, but instead trying to combine the unallocated space to the main partition as previously stated), it tells me that I would need to turn this into a dynamic drive, which I do not want to do. Even IF I do this, I receive an error anyways. How can I combine these partitions? Thank you very much in advance!

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Solution
To extend, the 56GB partition and the 163GB partition need to be right next to each other.

(one of the many issues with the whole 'clone' concept)