Merging partitions

[FlameMan]

Hey there!

Nah, I'm not back. I am struggling now with something I can't do myself, so I'm asking cause perhaps some of you have had a similar problem... I want to merge two partitions, but they are not adjacently placed...

Picture attached. Is that even possible? Is it possible to move the unallocated space from one side to another?

[Devin]

The easiest way to do that would be to remove any data from those two partitions and then delete the partitions making them unallocated space.
Then simply create a new drive with the space of both partitions.

[Liviu.]

Try with EaseUS Partition Master,worked for me.

[Fruity]

Unfortunately Windows won't allow you to extend a partition which comes before the primary one. If that makes sense. EaseUS may do the job but I am unsure, haven't used it for this reason. If not then there is no easy way to do this without deleting the whole lot and starting over.

Someone is free to correct me if I am wrong, would be interesting to know if there's a way.

[Fuzzy]

Try with EaseUS Partition Master,worked for me.

This is probably the easiest way, Windows disk management doesn't natively allow you to merge partitions that have other partitions between them in the blocks.

[Archie]

Whilst I agree with things said above, I would also suggest you (if none of them works) to use GParted. Create a bootable disk and install the program in it then run the disk as if it's a Windows installation CD. Try TuxBoot to do those steps which will make things a bit less complicated.

[Archie]

Is this problem resolved?