Can I delete this partition ??

[suraj ranjan]

Hello, I have attached the pic, check into it, I want to delete the partition of drive 'I' which is in disk 0. Basically when I got the laptop I had only HDD and that drive used to be my c drive, later I have added the SSD and made it a boot drive. Now I want to delete that partition and extend it to drive 'J' but I am not sure is it possible to do..So I would appreciate the suggestions below

[tikker]

IIRC Windows will only allow you to expand partitions to the right, so if you want to extend J: to empty space created by deleting I: then you'll have to do that with another tool like MiniTool Partition Wizard or similar.

[aDoomGuy]

Disk 0 partition 1 should be ok to delete. Other than that, what he said.

[suraj ranjan]

4 hours ago, tikker said:

IIRC Windows will only allow you to expand partitions to the right, so if you want to extend J: to empty space created by deleting I: then you'll have to do that with another tool like MiniTool Partition Wizard or similar.

Oh okay...or may be I will have to empty drive J, delete the drive and then extend it with drive I, right?

[suraj ranjan]

 

4 hours ago, tikker said:

another tool like MiniTool Partition Wizard

Is it possible to merge the both the drives while files are in it using mini tool partition?

[tikker]

16 minutes ago, suraj ranjan said:

 

Is it possible to merge the both the drives while files are in it using mini tool partition?

Seems like it can: https://www.partitionwizard.com/resizepartition/merge-partitions-without-losing-data.html

 

As always though, make a backup of anything you want to keep before messing with partitions.