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So I have unallocated space on my drive, sandwiched between two recovery partitions of unknown provenance. I'm trying to merge it into my C: drive, but since they aren't adjacent I couldn't extend volume. Next, I (stupidly) converted the drive to a dynamic one (since the name seemed like it would allow me to move the partitions) but that only made it worse, since I can't even delete the recovery drives using override in CMD now.

Are there any ideas for how I can actually merge the unallocated space into the C: drive without formatting everything?

My disk manager:

my disk manager

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1. Convert your dynamic disk back to a simple basic partition

Convert the partition type of your C-partition to from a dynamic disk type one to a basic NTFS one. You can use TestDisk to do this.

Here are two sources for a detailed description of partition types:

https://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/PartTypes.htm

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

Shut down your machine and restart. Your dynamic disk partition should have become a basic one.

If that fails because you are currently running windows from Disk0 run Windows or linux on a different machine and connect your disk in question as an additional one using an USB adaptor.

2. Move your recovery partition the right

Use a partitioning tool to move your recovery partition with a size of 1,17 GB to the right as far as you can do. This will make the free space appear of 92,74 GB between the partition that is labeled "C" and the recovery partition with a size of 1,17 GB.

3. Enlarge your "c"-partition

Extend your partition that is labeled "C" into the free space to the right. As far as I know the more recent versions of Windows support enlarging partitions to the right hand side.

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