[SOLVED] How to move unallocated space on SSD

[1Bad7752]

I want to remove the unallocated space on my drive and add it to the C drive partition. The partitions are as follows:
1 EFI - 100 MB
2 C drive - 418.47 GB
3 Recovery - 615 MB
4 Unallocated - 46.58 GB

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window
(this is probably an easy fix)

 

[lvt]

You only can merge a partition with an adjacent partition.

 

[lvt]

BTW you can create a temporary partition on [4] (let's call it F or whatever) then extend the [2] (C drive) with F's space using Extend function.

 

[Satan-IR]

Even with third party programs you can't leap frog over a partition. You can move partitions to left or right, merge two partitions, extend a partition to include the adjacent unallocated space.

As said above, show a screenshot of the Disk Management and we can see what's what.

If you have regular backups you can get rid of Reserve and Recovery partitions too. Usually the 100MB EFI and C: are enough to boot Windows.

 

[1Bad7752]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window
(this is probably an easy fix)

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window
(this is probably an easy fix)

Even with third party programs you can't leap frog over a partition. You can move partitions to left or right, merge two partitions, extend a partition to include the adjacent unallocated space.

As said above, show a screenshot of the Disk Management and we can see what's what.

If you have regular backups you can get rid of Reserve and Recovery partitions too. Usually the 100MB EFI and C: are enough to boot Windows.

Even with third party programs you can't leap frog over a partition. You can move partitions to left or right, merge two partitions, extend a partition to include the adjacent unallocated space.

As said above, show a screenshot of the Disk Management and we can see what's what.

If you have regular backups you can get rid of Reserve and Recovery partitions too. Usually the 100MB EFI and C: are enough to boot Windows.

 

[kerberos_20]

if its ssd, then this unallocated space is used for provisioning, without it ssd will become slow and wear faster

SSD Over-Provisioning And Its Benefits | Seagate US

 

[USAFRet]

For that C drive...

You'd need to first DELETE the 615MB Recovery partition.
Right click on hat...what option does it give you?

 

[USAFRet]

if its ssd, then this unallocated space is used for provisioning, without it ssd will become slow and wear faster

SSD Over-Provisioning And Its Benefits | Seagate US

Any "over provisioning" space would be invisible to the user and Disk Management.
This is not that.

 

[kerberos_20]

Any "over provisioning" space would be invisible to the user and Disk Management.
This is not that.

i have several samsungs and they do overprovisioning at end of drive with unalocated partitions

This unclaimed space will automatically be used by the controller as dynamic over-provisioning.

 

[USAFRet]

i have several samsungs and they do overprovisioning at end of drive with unalocated partitions

"OP", designated where?
Samsung Magician?

With an SSD, there is no "end of the drive". The cells and chips are seen by the OS as one large amorphous space.
The drive and its firmware handles where the data is and is not. And shuffles around as it sees fit.

Any OP just reports to the OS that the drive is some smaller thing than reality.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Any "over provisioning" space would be invisible to the user and Disk Management.
This is not that.

Overprovisioning is unallocated space at the end of the drive. It is very much visible.

 

[SkyNetRising]

You'd need to first DELETE the 615MB Recovery partition.
Right click on hat...what option does it give you?

Disk Management doesn't allow deleting recovery partitions.
You have to use diskpart to delete a recovery partition (or some 3rd party partition management software).

 

[USAFRet]

Overprovisioning is unallocated space at the end of the drive. It is very much visible.

I seem to be wrong.
I did not think that was the case.

Here are 2x 860 EVO 1TB.
Disk 1with no specified OP, and Disk 3 with 10% OP (93GB), just applied now.

I stand corrected.

 

[USAFRet]

File Explorer, OTOH, only sees the 838GB space.
(because the unallocated OP space has no drive letter)