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Non-adjacent partition merge issue

Nairolfaz -  
 Nairolfaz -
Hello everyone,

Usually, I manage on my own by doing some research on forums, but I'm stuck this time, so I'm turning to your great expertise.

A brief summary of the situation: I rebuilt my PC this weekend, installed an SSD for speed, and kept my HDD for simple storage. I cloned the HDD to the SSD, and so far so good. Now I have Windows installed on my SSD, and I have 2 partitions from the same HDD that are non-adjacent. Being particular about the layout, I thought, "let's delete one partition and extend the other, so I'll have just one of 1TB." But foolishly, I didn’t realize that you cannot merge non-adjacent partitions. "Well done, morray."
Anyway, I'm trying to use AOEMI, Macrium, and others, but the programs no longer see my unallocated partition, so merging is impossible, and I'm out of solutions...

Thank you in advance for your help.

https://zupimages.net/viewer.php?id=21%2F39%2Fmqy7.png

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3 answers

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    jfmimi Posted messages 13633 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 929
     
    Hello
    do you have any data to recover from the 1TB disk?
    the goal is to reset the 1TB disk to zero using "Diskpart"

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    1. Nairolfaz
       
      no data to retrieve on the 1TB HDD
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  2. brucine Posted messages 24984 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 181
     
    Good evening,

    If we want to continue with AOMEI, we need to proceed in several steps:
    -reactivate and then format the currently unallocated space
    -merge it with the middle partition (to its left)
    -create free space of the size corresponding to the old unallocated space at the beginning of this partition
    -and now, finally, we can extend the leftmost partition to the adjacent free space as we intended.
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    1. Nairolfaz
       
      I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that.
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      1. brucine Posted messages 24984 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 181 > Nairolfaz
         
        Hello,

        I assume from your image that it is a demo version of AOMEI that is being used, possibly ineffective for modifications? (I use AOMEI Partition Assistant, whose free version does the job when I ask it to).

        But I'm no longer sure I understand, this unallocated space indeed appears in your screenshots?
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      2. Nairolfaz > brucine Posted messages 24984 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        For AOMEI, I downloaded the free version available on the manufacturer's website, so is there another version?

        The unallocated space appears in my Windows disk manager. But it does not appear on AOMEI. The software only detects a "dynamic disk" on which my 3XX GB partition is visible, but not the 5XX GB unallocated one.
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      3. brucine Posted messages 24984 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 181 > Nairolfaz
         
        Verification done, AOMEI Partition Assistant automatically switches to Dynamic Disk Manager as soon as the operations concern a dynamic disk (and it seems that you have downloaded the Pro demo version for 30 days rather than the free standard version).

        Do you have a good reason for it to be a dynamic disk? (which also limits a number of operations on the partitions)
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      4. Nairolfaz > brucine Posted messages 24984 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        Sorry, I wasn't available these last few days, and no, there's no reason for it to be a dynamic disk, it seemed to be like that from the beginning, unless I messed up a manipulation.
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  3. jfmimi Posted messages 13633 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 929
     
    To reset the disk to zero using Diskpart
    Press the keys "Windows+X"
    then press the "A" key
    in the window that opens type Diskpart
    then type list disk
    see example


    give a screenshot

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    1. Nairolfaz
       
      Very well, I will try your manipulation and get back to you.

      Thank you.
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    2. Nairolfaz
       
      jfmimi.

      Here you go.
      https://zupimages.net/viewer.php?id=21%2F39%2Fobzj.png
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      1. jfmimi Posted messages 13633 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 929 > Nairolfaz
         
        then type select disk 0
        then clean
        provide screenshot
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      2. Nairolfaz > jfmimi Posted messages 13633 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention  
         
        Sorry, I haven't been available these past few days. I will perform your action in the morning.
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      3. Nairolfaz > jfmimi Posted messages 13633 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention  
         
        It's all good for me, a big thank you Jfmimi, once cleaned I reallocated the space via the disk manager, and now everything is fine. Great! :)
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