partition Partition refuses to expand?

[dingdongdiddlerydoo]

I just bought a new SSD and spent about an hour cloning my HDD to the SSD. I shrunk the system and windows partitions and removed the recovery partition and ended up with 2 separate unallocated "blocks". I extended the volume of the windows partition (renamed SSD) but it only merged with one of the unallocated blocks. I can assign that unallocated space as an empty drive/folder inside my current ssd partition but thats kind of ghetto. Is there anyway to force the partition to merge with this space?

 

[rheyL]

can you initialize the unallocated space?

as far as i can remember.. merging unallocated space can't be done

unless the space has been initialize..

[ddrkreature]

From my experience with partitions, you can't expand backwards. Only to partitions that are in front of the drive you want to expand.

 

If what I just said is false, I too would like to know how 

[PalladianPD]

Listen to ddrkreature. You can only extend a partition if the free space is at its right hand end. At least in Windows. I have heard that you can do it with other tools, like AOMEI partition assistant. Use the Google, Luke.