How to undo splitting my F Drive into 2 parts without loosing data..

[Philoso]

Hi I'm not sure how this happened but today when I was adding a SSD drive to my computer. I noticed my HDD i use for extra space is split into 2 partitions with same drive letter. Is there someway to fix this without doing a reformat? So I don't lose any data. I was thinking formatting one half would work even though I'm getting you will lose data if you do this message but I'm not sure. If anyone could help I'd appreciate it.

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[Philoso]

O and for some reason my new Samsung Evo Drive is saying unallocated in Samsung Magician Software when that isn't the case in Windows. Anyone have any idea on whats going on there?

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... Yes a re-partition will lose data for you... I suggest giving a new letter to the second partition. Look at what is on it... and see if you can shuffle the data off the Disk, before an attemp to single partition it.

 

[ss202sl]

Something like Partition Magic may help, but no matter what you do, there is a risk that you'll lose data. You should backup any important data(actually you should already have one) first.

If it were me, I'd just get an external drive for backups, and use it to copy the data to, and then re-create the partition.

 

[Philoso]

Tried changing Letter all that did was change both of to G. It looks like there partition but I don't believe they are. I think it is because the drive is set to Dynamic i'm reading online I will lose data as well if I try to convert back to simple. I'm just going to leave it be it still has the correct amount of space and works ok and I'd rather not lose the data.

 

[ss202sl]

It's a volume extended across 2 partitions. You would have to first undo extending it across the partitions(which would probably kill the data) - Partition Magic may be able to do this without losing data. Like I said, you will probably have to back up the data before you do anything to it.

it won't hurt to leave it as it is.