Expanding a partition that's not next to the LSB

[skimmilk5]

I have a Dell XPS 13 9360 whose SSD was recently upgraded from 240GB (SK Hynix P300 or something like that?) to 500GB (Intel 660p). I cloned the drive using Macrium Reflect Free (v7.2.4440), and while the clone worked just fine, 238GB are unallocated. I thought that I could just right-click on my c:/ drive and "Extend Volume", but that option is greyed out. Doing some Googling, I found that the unallocated space needs to be in the logical storage block right next to the partition that you wish to expand on a basic drive, but that if the drive were converted to a dynamic drive, then this limitation was lifted. There's a couple of partitions (Windows recovery tools, custom Dell stuff) in between the c:/ drive and the unallocated space. So, I converted the drive to a dynamic drive, and nada. Extend Volume is still greyed out. I don't want to just make that space into a d:/ drive, and would really like to have all of the storage on the c:/ drive.

Tl;dr: I was under the presumption that IF the drive were a dynamic drive, then having the logical blocks adjacent for the partition expansion wouldn't matter. This seems to be a case of old Windows features rearing their ugly head, back in the before-fore times when no one had SSDs. Am I mistaken here?

[TheGlenlivet]

Tried Gparted?  Not sure if you can make these changes while booted from the drive in windows.  When I have to do this stuff I boot from a Linux USB.  

I'm pretty sure Gparted can do this and it will boot from the USB without touching the drive you are trying to change.

[F___M]

it. matters. use something like minitools partition wizard free.

[nick name]

I guess worst case scenario is having to do the clone again, but before you do sizing the partitions to your liking first.