This is my laptop C: drive and its many partitions. It was created from an sysimage backup to a new replacement drive. I now want to dump the D: drive and recover its space on the C drive. Can this be done? If so, what is the precise sequence of delete, extend, etc.
The first thing there is, you have two "recovery" partitions. You PROBABLY only need one of them, but you can't be sure, because other things that aren't Windows recovery partitions can be marked as recovery partitions. Often what it really means is "Don't touch this". To be safe, leave them alone.
So what you'd do then, in order is (and if I were you I'd use a tool like Partition Magic to do it):
Drop the D: partition
Move the recovery partitions up to the end of the disk (try to keep them aligned on 1MB, or even 1GB, boundaries)
Now you can grow the C: partition into the space where they used to be and the unallocated space in between.
Storage management is one of those things that Windows makes much more obfuscated than it really needs to be.
@shoq try reading the guide linked below for some background understanding.
I haven’t done anything like this in a while, but from memory, it should be possible to just delete the D partition, and extend the C partition from there.
I wouldn’t touch the recovery partitions. I would ONLY attempt to extend C that is labeled “OS”.
@shoq You grab a USB, an iso of gparted live and a copy of Rufus or Linux live boot creator. It will make a bootable USB out of the iso. Boot from the USB and then use the tool from the live disk to fix up your partitions.
Leaving it alone is an option, but not a good one. C is very maxxed out and I need more room on it
but it’s also my boot drive, so this must be a flawless maneuver
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