Help with Partitioning New SSD

[isaha]

I just purchased a new Samsung 990 Pro 1TB NVME SSD.  I have been running a cheap 256gb SSD for a while now, but now that I've started getting into gaming, I needed something faster.  However, when I cloned windows onto the SSD, somehow the partition Windows is installed on is separated from the rest (700gb) of the drive by a recovery partition.  When messing around with it a little to try and fix it I somehow converted the drive to a dynamic drive and I can't figure out how to turn it back into a basic.  I did some research and found that the reason I can't combine the unused storage with the windows partition is because it's not adjacent.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I'm not opposed to a fresh Windows install if that is necessary, I just need to fix this.

[ChaoticChaosx]

I never clone only fresh install so not to sure.

 

The only way to get from dynamic to basic is by deleting all volume on the drive which is all data on the drive but if it's just windows. Do a fresh install.

[Electronics Wizardy]

If you want to do this without a reinstall one way is to boot into a linux distro with gparted. Then you can move that 600mB partition to the end of the drive. Then you can boot into windows and expand your c drive to get all the space usable.

[isaha]

On 11/29/2023 at 10:27 PM, Dean0919 said:

Honestly, I would just delete all partitions & do the fresh install. Much easier than what you're going through now. It's not worth the hassle.

How would I go about doing that?

[Robchil]

5 hours ago, isaha said:

How would I go about doing that?

i would use parted magic USB and moved the last partition to the end of free space and expanded the C drive to max.. 

you should be able to do that with diskpart too.. but it's all CLI commands.  but boot with the install usb and do troubleshooting and run diskpart in a CMD windows there

 

 

[isaha]

Thanks for all the help!  I ended up using an old SSD to run Windows 11 and go into my SSD and formated it completely as well as converting it to a basic disk (I had to delete the small recovery partition with CLI override).  I then created a Win 11 installation media and installed it on the SSD.