Drive help

[owencrispy]

Cloned by old 480gb ssd onto the new 1tb ssd i purchased, but now i cant figure out how to basically "add" the last 450gb of storage into the partition. See image below. I used macrium reflect to do this:

 

[flashiling]

if you search for partitioning (or partition) in your windows settings it should show a control panel setting called "create and format drive partitions" (that was directly translated from the result i got on windows with danish language.

then you should see your drive and the unallocated space.

then you can allocate space from there

[owencrispy]

8 minutes ago, flashiling said:

if you search for partitioning (or partition) in your windows settings it should show a control panel setting called "create and format drive partitions" (that was directly translated from the result i got on windows with danish language.

then you should see your drive and the unallocated space.

then you can allocate space from there

Great, so i've done that now.

 

Any ideas on how i combine them? Just do i dont have two seperate drives on one disk!

[flashiling]

it's a while since i've done it and i'm on a work computer so i can't just format part of my own drive to check.

but i belive if you right click the part that's already allocated, there should be an option called "expand disk"

[owencrispy]

9 minutes ago, flashiling said:

it's a while since i've done it and i'm on a work computer so i can't just format part of my own drive to check.

but i belive if you right click the part that's already allocated, there should be an option called "expand disk"

Option is there, but its greyed out! how annoying

[TomvanWijnen]

5 minutes ago, owencrispy said:

Option is there, but its greyed out! how annoying

You might need to get rid of the second empty partition to do that.

[owencrispy]

3 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

You might need to get rid of the second empty partition to do that.

 

Done! but still no luck, anymore suggestions? it doesnt let me merge the two!

[flashiling]

oh, it's because you made your boot partition 446GB.

normally you don't need that much space just for windows

[TomvanWijnen]

5 minutes ago, owencrispy said:

Done! but still no luck, anymore suggestions? it doesnt let me merge the two!

It might be because the recovery partition is after the main partition. You might need to remove (or maybe move) that partition in order to expand it. Try if it can expand onto that partition first (but don't do it)

 

But according to your picture your partition D is still allocated, you first need to unallocate it to add it onto another partition.

[owencrispy]

31 minutes ago, flashiling said:

oh, it's because you made your boot partition 446GB.

normally you don't need that much space just for windows

Ah! any idea how i change that?

[flashiling]

1 minute ago, owencrispy said:

Ah! any idea how i change that?

I don't think you can merge partitions with the partition that has windows on it.

I could be wrong but i've had some issues with that before.