I have a 1 TB hard disk drive which has 4 partitions. The first one is marked as System Reserved and is only 100 MB in size. My OS (Windows 10) is installed on a 120 GB SSD. I'm trying to consolidate all the partitions in my hard drive.
I've deleted partition 4 after copying all of its data onto volume 3. I believe I can easily extend volume 3 now that there's space available. Before doing that I'd like to merge my second and third volume. I was thinking of activating partition 4 and copying all of the data from 2 and 3 so i can merge them. But I'm not sure if it'll work. If it does then i can copy back the data from volume 4 to the new merged 2+3 volume and merge them all.
I've deleted most of the data from the drives (Steam games) so there's not much data. It'll still take me hours to copy back and forth.
Is this going to work? Will I be able to merge volume 2 and 3? If not, is there another way to achieve what I'm trying to do. I don't have a backup drive.
Here's an image from Disk Partition tool on Windows:
I've deleted partition 4 after copying all of its data onto volume 3. I believe I can easily extend volume 3 now that there's space available. Before doing that I'd like to merge my second and third volume. I was thinking of activating partition 4 and copying all of the data from 2 and 3 so i can merge them. But I'm not sure if it'll work. If it does then i can copy back the data from volume 4 to the new merged 2+3 volume and merge them all.
I've deleted most of the data from the drives (Steam games) so there's not much data. It'll still take me hours to copy back and forth.
Is this going to work? Will I be able to merge volume 2 and 3? If not, is there another way to achieve what I'm trying to do. I don't have a backup drive.
Here's an image from Disk Partition tool on Windows: