Question SSD confusion

[jerica]

Hi, recently tried my hand at building a PC. asus prime z490-p motherboard, intel i7 10700k processor, amd rx5700 xt gpu and a sandisk SSD 1tb. It's running ok but for some reason the system has only allocated 300gb to C drive and the rest to nothing until the other day when I found it had give it the letter F. See pic. Is it possible to combine the F volume into the C to make one drive? I don't understand how it divided it up in the first place, it was all meant to be C drive. I couldn't figure out why my 1TB drive had suddenly reduced to 300GB. Any help would be great, thanks. OK, so how do I post a picture? Found out how to post pic but it keeps telling me something went wrong, will try again later.

 

[USAFRet]

No picture linked.

 

[jerica]

As I said, it won't let me post a pic.

 

[USAFRet]

As I said, it won't let me post a pic.

Upload your pic to imgur.com, post the link here.
Tom's Hardware does not host pics internally.

 

[jerica]

Done that, just tells me something went wrong, please try again.

 

[USAFRet]

Done that, just tells me something went wrong, please try again.

What part of that failed?

 

[jerica]

OK, so pressed the insert image button, right click, paste, pressed insert, up pops the something went wrong message. Looks like I might have solved it.

 

[USAFRet]

OK, so pressed the insert image button, right click, paste, pressed insert, up pops the something went wrong message.

What did you paste?

Something ending in .jpg?


Or, at imgur, copy the BBCode link, and paste that.

 

[jerica]

It's up now in my last post.

 

[USAFRet]

Please post a screencap from Disk Management, and a little larger.
Can't read that one.

 

[CountMike]

OK, so pressed the insert image button, right click, paste, pressed insert, up pops the something went wrong message. Looks like I might have solved it.

Problem is partition between C and F. It's system reserved partition and has to be moved to front or back so C and F can be merged
https://www.hdd-tool.com/partition-editor/how-to-move-partition-volume.html
Since you already have MR, make sure you back up whole disk.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Avoid merging partitions.
This is very risky operation, it should not be used (or have full backups for all your data before).

It is safer to:

move data away from F: to some other drive,​

delete partition F: ,​

move 863MB partition to end of the drive,​

extend partition C: to full unused space.​

 

[jerica]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7kxe6jvdbbdwv6/Disk manage.jpg?dl=0

How do I move partitions?

 

[SkyNetRising]

How do I move partitions?

Minitool partition wizard free can do that.

BTW - 863MB partition is recovery partition. You can delete it too. Not essential.
Then there's no need to move anything.

 

[Lafong]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7kxe6jvdbbdwv6/Disk manage.jpg?dl=0

How do I move partitions?

Minitool Partition Wizard does a good job. It's a free download.

 

[jerica]

Ta for the help, all sorted. J.

 

[fzabkar]

It seems to me that you may have cloned a 320GB drive to your new 1TB drive. That would explain the disjointed partitions.