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Extend empty partition with partition with data on it

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with the windows delivered tools you can only enlarge a partition to the right. or shrink it. 

 

For other changes you need a partition manager tool. Try Easus or O&O

For who knows what reason, Windows 10 decided to make a 100GB partition from my 1TB hard drive. Nothing is on it but the now empty partition is BEFORE the rest of the data on my drive. I know that I can extend a partition to leave the whole drive as 1 location, but through disk management that would mean extending the empty data using the rest of the hard drive that has data on it. Will this effectively wipe the drive? I don't want to mess with all the programs / games / personal data that's on it. Virtually everything besides the OS.

 

Here is an image of what I'm dealing with and why I'm concerned (Deleted the partition before taking the screen shot so it's just unallocated. It was set to F: by Windows before hand) [ Screenshot of Disk Management ]

 

I know I could also use a 3rd party disk management tool to move the partitions but from experience that can take an whole day to do.

 

Thanks for looking and any information you can provide.

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Can't you just right-click on D, and click extend?

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Thanks for asking

 

This is why I'm posting. Only option is to Shrink D as it is. If I create a new volume with the unallocated space all that can do is Shrink as well for some reason now.

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with the windows delivered tools you can only enlarge a partition to the right. or shrink it. 

 

For other changes you need a partition manager tool. Try Easus or O&O

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Thanks. I wasn't 100% on if it could just take the data as it was or like you say, only work to the right.

 

Still seems weird that creating a volume from the unallocated space has no option to extend now. I was expecting it to just want to wipe the 840gb of partition with data on it to add it to the 100gb random partition, but that options gone now for whatever reason so for all it matters I'll make this as solved and try sort it with a 3rd party tool.

 

Thanks for the replies

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