Left over partition after moving BCDboot

[ITheEric]

So I replaced my 250GB SSD with a 500GB one, both Samsung 850 EVO. I have a secondary 1TB HDD. The following is how I went about replacing the SSD's:
When I tried booting with just the 250GB SSD, so without the HDD, I couldn't. Turned out the 500MB 'system' partition was on my HDD. So I moved BCDboot to the SSD using EasyBCD 2.3, after which I could boot without the HDD. I cloned the 250GB to the 500GB without a problem with Samsung Data Migration, and everything is fine now. The only thing is that I'm left with a 500MB partition om my HDD which used to be the system partition, but now seems empty. It's showing up as E: drive. Here's a screenshot of disk managent: https://imgur.com/l6gzYzy
So my question is: can I delete this partition? And if so, will the space be added back to the other partition on the HDD?
Thanks in advance!

 

[ArtPog]

1. While it's not absolutely essential to delete the 500 MB partition on the secondary drive - assuming your 500 GB SSD boot drive boots & functions without problems with both drives connected - you can delete the 500 MB partition by using Diskpart.

2. I don't know if you're familiar with the Diskpart utility. If you are not familiar do a Google search on "using diskpart". The final command after selecting the partition is "delete partition override" (no quotes). You will need the override flag for the command to work.

3. Now you will be left with 500 MB of unallocated disk-space. If you want to absorb that disk-space in your D: partition you will need to employ a partition management program since DM will not be useable in that circumstance.

 

[ITheEric]

Thanks alot! I'll look into it. Is there any partition management program you can recommend?

 

[ArtPog]

Not particularly. The freely-available ones generally possess this capability, e.g., AOMEI Partition Assistant, Mini-Tool Partition Wizard.