How to merge C and D partition when you have an extra Recovery partition in between

Situatie

This situation arises when you want to merge your C and D partitions and you have a small recovery partition in between and you can t delete it from diskmgmt.msc.

Backup

Always have your data in the D partition backed up and it is ideal to have an integral system restore point on an external HDD.

Solutie

Pasi de urmat

Press Windows + R and in the dialog box type: diskmgmt.msc

And in our particular case:

Now we open powershell as Administrator from start:

Now we type the following series of commands:

Diskpart – press Enter
List Disk – press Enter
select disk 0 – press Enter
list partition – press Enter
and now we select the desired partition for deletion ( we compare the size in disk management not to delete the wrong partition) select partition 5 (in our case)
And we have successfully deleted the partition.

Now we delete the D partition by right clicking on it in disk management:

Now we can extend or C partition by:
Right-Clicking on C and Extend Volume.
Now we have merged C&D partitions into only one.

Tip solutie

Permanent

Impact colateral

Always have a backup of your system because this partition can contain important files.

Plan de restaurare in caz de nefunctionare

Have a system restore point created.

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