Alright, I'm at my wit's end here. I've tried every solution on every forum post I've seen and nothing seems to be getting anywhere. So here goes!
Yesterday I got an SSD (Woo! Finally!) and did a clean install of Windows 10 Pro onto it. No problems there. My old setup was a single 1TB HDD with two partitions, C and D. After installing Windows on the SSD, I booted up and manually copied all my important bits from the old C drive over. I kept most of my data on the old D partition, so it wasn't too hard to save everything from the old CD as it was only a few gigs of documents and such. Then I used disk manager to wipe the data on the old C drive. Now I've got just two drives: my SSD C drive, and my HDD D drive. And here's where things get annoying...
Now I have empty space (former C partition) on my HDD that I want to reclaim and extend my D drive into. The problem (or so I read) is that there's a recovery partition in between the old C and D partitions that I can't delete with any Windows tools so I can't merge the drives. What's the solution to that? Apparently booting Ubuntu off a USB drive and using gparted to wipe the recovery partition that Windows can't touch. So now I've done that and everything should merge! Except it doesn't. I've tried third party apps that can't touch this unallocated data, I've tried googling every combination of words to find the solution to this and I've got nothing. I can't create a new simple volume off the unallocated data, I can't extend into the unallocated data, and I'm really annoyed that I've got 100 gigs just sitting there empty. I know the simplest solution would be to just copy the contents of the drive somewhere else and format it, but I don't just have another empty TB drive sitting around and I really don't feel like buying one just to solve a problem that shouldn't be this difficult to solve. Any help would be greatly appreciated with this. Thanks
P.S. is there a way to upload a screenshot directly to the forum? The insert picture option just gives me a URL option
Yesterday I got an SSD (Woo! Finally!) and did a clean install of Windows 10 Pro onto it. No problems there. My old setup was a single 1TB HDD with two partitions, C and D. After installing Windows on the SSD, I booted up and manually copied all my important bits from the old C drive over. I kept most of my data on the old D partition, so it wasn't too hard to save everything from the old CD as it was only a few gigs of documents and such. Then I used disk manager to wipe the data on the old C drive. Now I've got just two drives: my SSD C drive, and my HDD D drive. And here's where things get annoying...
Now I have empty space (former C partition) on my HDD that I want to reclaim and extend my D drive into. The problem (or so I read) is that there's a recovery partition in between the old C and D partitions that I can't delete with any Windows tools so I can't merge the drives. What's the solution to that? Apparently booting Ubuntu off a USB drive and using gparted to wipe the recovery partition that Windows can't touch. So now I've done that and everything should merge! Except it doesn't. I've tried third party apps that can't touch this unallocated data, I've tried googling every combination of words to find the solution to this and I've got nothing. I can't create a new simple volume off the unallocated data, I can't extend into the unallocated data, and I'm really annoyed that I've got 100 gigs just sitting there empty. I know the simplest solution would be to just copy the contents of the drive somewhere else and format it, but I don't just have another empty TB drive sitting around and I really don't feel like buying one just to solve a problem that shouldn't be this difficult to solve. Any help would be greatly appreciated with this. Thanks
P.S. is there a way to upload a screenshot directly to the forum? The insert picture option just gives me a URL option
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