Resize a partition / Merge two partitions to one

In this screencast we cover merging two partitions on a hard drive into a single partition.

Sumit Vyas
4 years ago
Extend option is not accesible
Please help me out

Supreme Tuner
1 year ago
me too

Rahul Arora
2 months ago
I also want to extend my C drive but that option is greyed out. In case you know a solution,
please help me out

Dimitri Sainis
2 years ago
Short and to the point. Big thanks mate ! Amazing video :)

4 years ago
THANK YOU so much! I can Render faster now! And download more !!!! THANK YOU SO
MUCH !!!!!

Schnapp Wolfhard
3 years ago
I can't merge C and D drive, becouse can't Extend C Volume :(

Shàydo Rahl
3 years ago
ty bro 10/10 and subbed.

Andriana Vasilakou
3 years ago
I delete successfully the D drive but then the option to extend the C drive in unavailable. Can
anyone help please??

Rahul Arora
2 months ago
I also want to extend my C drive but that option is greyed out. In case you know a solution,
please help me out

Mohammad Wefqy Godah, MD, MPH

2 years ago
What an amazing, simple and to the point video. Thanks a million Steve (y)

Rain ouchen
3 years ago
thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks sir

21EC
1 year ago
this is easy for you but how do I extend my C drive if the option is grayed out?

John
4 years ago
Great tutorial and very easy to do. Thanks :)

mike ehlers
3 years ago
This worked on my Lenovo with 8.1.

harrison5052
3 years ago
thank you so much being wanting to do this for so long, and you made it so simple for someone
like me who knows nothing about computers!

Richard Grec
1 year ago
Very nice and clean tutorial.

KYZA619
4 years ago (edited)
@Steve Fisher My second partition says free space and it wont let me extend the first
partition. The option to do so is greyed out, I've tried closing management and reopening it but
that does nothing. Not sure if I should delete the partition or not? Also I think the free space
partition may be extended it has a dark green outline to it which is the same colour as extended
in the colour key. PLEASE HELP
Rahul Arora
2 months ago
I also want to extend my C drive but that option is greyed out. In case you know a solution,
please help me out

Alex Caceres
2 years ago
Hi, what happens if I don't get the 'Extend Volume' option active?

Alex Caceres
2 years ago
+Alex Caceres
Nevermind, got it now. Thanks again for the video !

Joe
2 years ago
+Alex Caceres
what is the solution

luis angel encarnacion

2 years ago
dont be selfish and tell us the solution¡

Joe
2 years ago
+luis angel encarnacion
just do it with software to resize partition i worked it out with some software. idk wich software
google it

Crni Crnac
3 years ago
The operation is not supported by the object.

Ian Warren
3 years ago
Thank you, I am greatly relieved to say that that was much easier than I had expected it to be!
Nephilim Slayer
1 week ago
Thank you! Helped me when converting an old laptop hard drive into external. It was partitioned
into two drives, one being the recovery drive.
Steljoy
3 years ago
Thank you, you absolute beast. That was very useful:]

Tom Ye
2 years ago
I recently bought a SSD and did a fresh install of windows 7 on it. My old HD was partitioned into
C: (system) and D: (storage), I want to delete C: and extend the space to D: but disk management
did not allow it. The message I got: "The operation you selected will convert the selected basic
disk(s) to dynamic disk(s). If you convert the disk(s) to dynamic, you will not be able to start
installed operating systems from any volume on the disk(s) (except the current boot volume)." I
then clicked yes and got "There is not enough space on the disk(s) to complete this operation.
Can anyone assist with this issue? Thanks

Sahrab Nabiyev
1 month ago
thank you man

Frigusas ヅ
2 months ago
thank you this video is realy helpless so fast video nice

Naxtis
2 months ago
Thanks - this helped - and i don't often like videos but i think this one deserves it.

nikhil mhatre
7 months ago (edited)
It worked thanks. One problem I faced that delete partition was disabled but I figured it out that
it is because of type of partition was system managed space once I changed it to no page file. It
worked

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz

3 years ago
I have a question hopefully u can answer for me. Im wanting to install a new OS on my old
laptop, but I have alot of important files and such I dont want to lose and dont have anymore
space left on my portable hard drive cause of even more important things on that. So what I
want to do is partition my drive like u showed but I need about 100 GB partition. I tried but it
just wont work, so how u do this besides going out and buying a new hard drive which I dont
have money for? Thanx for any help
ali nasir
4 months ago
Great

Anamnesia
1 year ago
Hey Steve. Perhaps you can do a video on High CPU usage & how to kill any Process that's
causing it - SVCHOST.exe is a common CPU hogger.

Gordon .Mac
3 years ago
Nice...I had 300+ gb that became "unallocated" on my ssd. Somehow it removed itself from "C"
drive. I called Samsung to say WTF! and they said the only way to put it back in "C" drive was to
format the disc and re-install everything, including the OS. This looks like the easy way to do it,
Thanks!!

BassBoost-Music
7 months ago
You broke my computer !!!

Mostafa El Ayaty
7 months ago
thank you

puffpuff
2 years ago
When i did this my disk became dynamic and in disk manager it is divided in two section: one
with size of my volume that i did extend and other with size of unallocated space i did extended
with. They merged but i didnt want my disk to become dynamic. I followed the instructions but it
doesnt came out as it shows in video.

Matt Trussell
3 years ago
Really helpful! I had installed a version of Ubuntu that was too old to update, so I needed to
delete it, reallocate the partition, and start over with a clean slate. This video helped a lot. Thank
you.

DeTodoaLoTico
2 years ago
I deleted the partition but Im not getting, Extend volume, my C drive is ssd
ijustwannabeadrummer
2 years ago
I do not have the option to extend the file. I have allocated space that is open but it is greyed
out to extend. I reformatted the free space to NTFS and deleted it. Still no option to extend the
drive. Perhaps I'll try again with something else.

Sanyam Chawla
2 years ago
thx

Abraham
2 years ago
No me funciona, el disco C: no me da la opcion de "extedend" es como si estuviera bloqueado ;(

Aiden Woodruff
3 years ago
cannot "extend". My drive that I want to delete shows up as free space instead of unallocated
and when I click "Delete partition", it says, "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to
complete this operation." Help!

Mohammad Abd Al-Hamid

1 year ago
Thank You

Anamnesia
1 year ago
Probably the easiest to watch demonstration I've seen in a dozen or so videos... Cheers!

ttnyny
2 years ago
Based on what I have read elsewhere, I assume that this only works when: (a) the two partitions
are directly adjacent to one another (i.e., there is no intervening partition), (b) the target
partition is to the "right" of the partition to be extended (as the partitions are depicted on the
screen), and (b) the target partition is in NTFS format.

GUMMRUCHK
2 years ago
I'm not on windows 7 so idk how much a difference it makes but when I click on my C drive the
extend volume part is greyed out

simonbluman
6 months ago
Thank you. That was very simple to follow and it worked a treat.

Friend with medical benefits

1 year ago

Vikram Rdx
3 years ago
thank u very helpful

iMap Abdou
2 years ago
Thanks m8!

Dobrin Lilovski
3 years ago
thanks :)

Dusty Carter
1 year ago
Excellent tutorial, precise and to the point, easy to follow.

Rouble Akhtar
6 months ago
is the data safe

Vishnu Thapasya
3 years ago
Done Perfectly !!

CrazyEnzo03
4 years ago
Splitting my drive into partitions was a pain in the ass. Glad to find that merging was a breeze.
Thanks.

Tomichan Pc
2 years ago
Thank you

John
3 years ago
You are a saint! Thank you so much, I've been trying to fix this for hours!

chris Brown
3 years ago
I followed this but when I deleted the volume it became "Free Space" not "unallocated" and the
option to extend the other partition was greyed out...HELP !!

devilhunter dante
2 years ago
Thanks Bro!

Pixelated Network
3 years ago
Thank you! Ur the best!

smfgreat
2 years ago
Great!!!!

RamenNoodleSoup
2 years ago
My extend volume button is greyed out, help please

R3dLine237
1 year ago
I have tried this on Win10 tho'. It gives me after finish :"must make the disks into dynamic disks",
or some such. Any suggestions or advice?

blaping420nct
2 years ago
i subbed and loved the video so simple and easy

mike glaser
3 years ago
thank you perfect help!!!

krishna sharma
4 months ago
not working FAKE

Aruna Warushahennadige
3 years ago
Thank You

David Jiménez González

David Jiménez González
3 years ago

Thor Hakkuh
2 years ago
Fantastic, short and spot on! Thank you sooo much

Damianos Kapagiannidis
2 years ago
Awesome! Short and spot on! Keep it up!

De Thomas
3 years ago
Thank you

Trevor Beck
3 years ago
helpful but at the end i get a error message stating "The operation is not supported by the
object."

OxidePro
4 years ago
Worked perfectly! Thanks!

Nathan Self
3 years ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG :DDD

Lavos
2 years ago
Pro!

Joyce Zeng
1 year ago
very helpful!!

0komi
2 years ago
tell me the truth. How many times have you been asked ¿where are those "important files", I
dont have them in my drive?

Tim Sommer
2 years ago
What if I have more than 1 disk? When I tell the disk to expand, it wants to expand to a different
drive. How can I keep this from happening?

Esoteric Indeed
2 years ago
love your voice ... all the homo... thanks for the tech help btw

Team Channel
4 years ago
Thank you

Raph Manahan
4 years ago
thanks bro! :)

Bonecrusher27WTF
3 years ago
Thank you. Very clear explanation!

Cissy Angelo
3 years ago
I was about to reinstall windows to my computer when I came across this. Big help, indeed!
Thanks!

zerious1016
2 years ago
Thanks Steve, your video is very helpful

con.b
3 years ago
Worked perfectly. Thanks

Heals4days
3 years ago
Good job m8
VGInternational
2 years ago
thank-you. much appreciated.

Yoel Kovacs
3 years ago
good work very nice explanation!!

Seanrus xxx
2 years ago
Great info Thank you very much.

CozMa
2 years ago
Can i get outnof the computer the hard that i deleted volume?

simonedoesitbetter
3 years ago
My extend volume feature is not available in my C Hard Drive, therefore whet I try to join C and
D together, I can't Why and what do I do tnx?

Irfan Umar
3 years ago
Thank u very much !!!! ... i was looking for this a long time ago

Prophet Brady
3 years ago
Thank you so much. I have a ssd that had two drives and I was running out of space on one so
this will help me soo much thank you :D

David Pierson
1 year ago
Perfect, worked a treat.

Sahir Zaheer
3 years ago
Very nice tutorial Steve, ive been browsing for the simple and easy videos but couldn't find it...
With the help of your video i manage to sort my problem out in 3 mins
God bless you
a.cudina
9 months ago
thank you it is very hard to find something on 7 hard drives and 1 ssd

Johnn hulk
2 years ago
thank you.

Raul Ramos
3 years ago
thank you =)

ghalib siddiqi
1 year ago (edited)
can I transfer my windows drive data to an other drive and then Extend it???
If i just want to convert my local windows drive into an other drive

nikhil .k.anil
3 years ago
Thanks mate. I didn't know it was that easy.

Jose Eduardo
2 years ago
Thanks a lot

Eric Lopez
3 years ago
A big thank you to you!

Jitendra Joshi
2 years ago
Helped Me Thanks a lot!!

OCDRUMGUY
4 years ago
Thank you!

MithrandirTheCage
3 years ago
Sweet, nice quick video! Cheers! :)
Marcel Fernández Romero
3 years ago
this doesn't work if the first disk is filled and you want to keep the data in the second one.

miskas123456789
3 years ago
THANK you man you revived my pc :p

Jacob Tyge
2 years ago
So - If you got a C drive that is almost full- the hole disk is full, there are no allocated space to
use. Is it possible to add another disk, and let it work as part of the C drive?
I got my C drive on a 60GB SSD disk, and thought it would be big enoug. I have bought another
SSD disk with 128 GB. Mounted it as a NTFS share, and could try and move some of the data
from the C drive to the NTFS folder. Espicailly the APP Data Folder is full. There are 11 GB of data
there, that could be moved, Then If I add the folder to the path folder, then would it be possible
to drop the app data into that folder....

Abdullah Qumper
8 months ago
how about how to Splite 1 drive into 2 ?

Simon Requena
3 years ago
Perfect, Excellent. Thank you....

Srikanth Reddy
3 years ago
thank u

kostas bobos
2 years ago
Thank you!!!

Converse87
3 years ago
Tnx :)

Kunal s
4 years ago
thankyou for the advise but what if my opition to delete volume is not available
Luke French
3 years ago
Thanks :)

Carlos Bassan
3 years ago
Thanks :)

Stoyan Stoyanov
3 years ago

Hermon Basil
2 years ago
ah thanks man ..worked well for me :)

Heather Keeton
2 years ago
Thanks so much. Just what I needed! :)

Bob Yanson
2 years ago
thank you so much man this really saves me

nederburgbaronne
3 years ago
Thanks,very helpful, short and sweet to the point Thanks !!!!

F.A.D.
3 years ago
Thank you very much , sir .

Sagun Bikram Rana

3 years ago
thank you !!

Eduardo Mejias
1 year ago
Thank you very much!! Greetings from Albury NSW, Australia 2017 ... Eddie

mdha rashid
4 years ago
thanks

Shivalingraju Sattigeri
4 years ago
thank u thanks bro it helped me alot ......i just want to know is that this partitioning and resize a
partion we can do it any number of times right..........

danwithjesus
4 years ago
Thank you Steve...great tutorial

Ahmad Ajmal
3 years ago
Awsome dude . very helpful <3
jfdomega
2 years ago
thank you , so clear and concise!
geoffrey joe
3 years ago
Thx It worked in my laptop

Kaiser Jamal
4 years ago
Very clear and concise. Thanks.

Manuel Manuel
2
years ago

vikas aggarwal
3 years ago
hey i dont get the option for extend in c pleaze help

Usman Anwar
3 years ago
Thanks for sharing information.

Tobias Heinström
3 years ago
Thanks very good and short video
Mohammad Abd Al-Hamid
1 year ago
sorry but " Extend Volume" cell is not activated in my case. what should i do
thanks

Rahul Arora
2 months ago
I also want to extend my C drive but that option is greyed out. In case you know a solution,
please help me out

RIDE WITH XAVIER

3 years ago
Worked For ME THANKS :-D

Mineav
2 years ago
Thank you.

Parvez
4 years ago
it is very helpful to me. thanks for uploading this video. thanks again.

YUDSL EL
1 year ago (edited)
I knew this but I have forgotten, thank man... I got my drive back.

Muzzamil Shah
3 years ago
I lose 5gb in these process help

ssad25
4 years ago
Thanks for one of the best video, really helped

John Smith
2 years ago
If this does not work for anyone use "diskpart" from the command line .
1) Open cmd prompt
2) diskpart
3) list disk
 4) select disk x
5) list partition
6) select partition
7) delete partition x
Be careful not to delete the wrong disk and check you tube for examples if unsure. It helped me
to format a disk after pulling it out a linux box when the example here did not work.

tayyab ashraf
2 years ago
+John Smith
select disk command not run ... how can this run ?

John Smith
2 years ago
I suggest you search youtube for "diskpart" and follow an example for help with this. If you had
provided me with some info about what you see I might have been able to help. You need to
explain what you see. Good luck.

raakbanu1
4 years ago
Thank you for neat & sweet instruction!!!

Benjamin Ackert
4 years ago
Wonderful video! Very helpful!

Ewa Tyczynski
4 years ago
Short and very clear good job, thank you! Perfectly explained subject.

supersonic5464
2 years ago
10/10 ty

Abdullah Qumper
8 months ago
btw thanks for the into really hlped me

Michał Sępkowski
1 year ago
Thanks for help!
Slim Shady
3 years ago
this video is a life saver

Never Gonnatell
1 year ago
Thank you. All of the guides that I found written online were terrible. This solved it in 2 minutes,
perfect.

CK2700
4 years ago
Thanks you so much!!!

jenaprisky
3 years ago
Thx :)

Sajad Nouri
3 years ago
Ty sir.

Neptune
1 year ago
Thank you I have had this problem for ages and didn't know how to fix it

Veteran Bicycle
1 year ago
This is all well and good unless "extend volume" isn't available! That's why I'm here!

oddy5705
4 years ago
Nicely done. Thanks m8

Steam Station
4 years ago
thanks dude

Hacker and user

4 years ago
thanks you helped a lot
Peraveen Kumar
4 years ago
Super.... very useful... Thanks Pal... :)

MrJacobthegreat
4 years ago
Thanks!

Nikhil Mattoo
4 years ago
Thanks mate worked a charm xd

Daan Wesselius
4 years ago
good job, understandable ;)

balaji pass
1 year ago
my lap doesn't asks me for the option "extend volume "..Now what can i Do???...anyone suggest
me a solution..

Lizam Ali Khanzada

1 year ago
HAving same priblem

emerson murcia
1 year ago
Great!!! you made my day... Kudos to you sr.! Thank you so much!!!

Taylor Cates
2 years ago
What if I have programs installed on both C:/ and D:/
How do I merge w/o losing my installed programs on D:/

Pilazing
2 years ago
get a hard disk transfer all
and then transfer
if u dont have hard disk you could use a usb
Edgardo Galdamez
Edgardo Galdamez
4 years ago
Good Video
Oloruntola Deed
Oloruntola Deed
1 year ago
So this doesn't work if u have 3 partition or more
Eakram Khan
Eakram Khan
4 years ago
thank you :)
Ahri
Ahri
1 year ago
I love you. This is how tutorials should be made. Be my senpai?

Bar Yafe
11 months ago
I don't have extand...1:40 why?

Balbhakta Shrestha
4 years ago

Albert Garcia
1 year ago
thank's brother. now i have more my memory bigger hehezzz

BRSleeper2
4 years ago
The Delete button is grayed out?

Md. Zuhaier Absar Nibir

1 year ago
thank u man! the tutorial was just perfect and it worked for me!

superkingpaco
4 years ago
my computer wont let me delete D drives volume! what do i do?! hahaha. stressing out here.
thanks

Rompski
4 years ago
i have a c and a d.

theblackrecordz1 fav
1 year ago
Thank you so so much it works !!!!

Hemakumar Gantepalli
10 months ago
''I loved it

ANSHAD VS
1 year ago
thanx bro....

a.cudina
9 months ago
thank you

Waleed Moon
1 year ago

CraftyMiner88
4 years ago
Does this work if you want to turn two hdds into one partition?

NapsTer !
4 years ago
i think you can...just follow the same steps...dont worry, just make a full back up of you data of
HDD you want to merge and then try, it will not cause any damage to your pc ;)

niko bellic
1 year ago
thanks

NATHANAEL MITTAG
4 years ago
it wont let me I can't click extand it's whited out. Help Please!

Edgardo Galdamez
4 years ago
close the screen go back into management and it should allow you to do it now

Mh. A
4 years ago
what if i wanna extend the size of a drive without merging into another ?

dee greenwood
4 years ago
dont delete the drive just shrink it to the amount in megabytes u want to merge into the other
drive so you have one big and one small drive

real4o
2 years ago
i cant click on exted volume

cerberu999
2 years ago
+real4o Same here. Did you find any sollution? Would be greatly appreciated.

real4o
2 years ago
+cerberu999 yes but its depend what exactly you want to do...
cerberu999

cerberu999
2 years ago
@real4o merge C with D. It was greyed out and I couldn't, so I ended up using a program to do it.

real4o
2 years ago
+cerberu999 if u cant merge C and D just splite D, for example if ur D is 100GB, splite it to 80 and
20, then u will see D 20GB and E 80GB, then merge C and E. This is the only way with software.
80gb and 20gb its depend how much space u need to put in C. you can see my ENG is not good
but i hope u can understand what im trying to say. try this and tell me the result

cerberu999
2 years ago
@real4o I'll try, thanks alot!

Robi GMK
2 years ago
Thanks. Wery simple explane.

simon1812
3 years ago
I have the same issue as Sumit Vyas and BigkefjeeHD I want to extend my "C:" but the option to
extend volume remains grey, I was in turn able to restore the new unallocated volume back to its
original source :P

Mr SRMZ
3 years ago
@simon1812 LoL

Kree
3 years ago
Great- Thanks.
Altin Ademi
3 years ago
Thanks you very much , i liked and subscribed to you thanks again :D
Shane Skwarek
Shane Skwarek
3 years ago
Super helpful video. thanks!
Fahad Aldossary
Fahad Aldossary
3 years ago
helpful,
thanks

Luka Šauperl
4 years ago
I can't click extand it's whited out. Help Please!

MikuDeku90
4 years ago
This video was very useful. Thank you very much for it.

scorpio7ish
4 years ago
thank you so much I was so worried because my acer C drive was so short of space......now I
have 77gb free space..thanks to you.
Nick Shawger
Nick Shawger
5 years ago
bro, thanks,

VietLee
5 years ago
can't click extend it's just white.

Elias Gergi
5 years ago
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!

Adam Law
5 years ago
cheers pal helped alot

gdmjs
5 years ago
Disk Management
The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s). If you
convert the disk(s) to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any
volume on the disk(s) (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?
Yes No
hey man very good video and all but im having a problem can you help? ty :) btw after pressing
yes it says the operation is denied
Kevin Punongbayan
Kevin Punongbayan
5 years ago
Hi! I have 2 partition one is C: which has the win7 64bit(my mostly used) and the other is D:
which has my win7 32bit(i want to delete its content and the os itself). Is it okay to just delete or
need some advance deletition in os?? Thanks!

Meetha Rasgulla
5 years ago
Thanks Ever so much... Much Appreciated.
5 years ago
what if the c drive is on the right side

Sounds like you want to convert the volumes to dynamic disks and then you can extend the
volume across two hard drives. It will double you chance of loosing data though as if either hard
drive dies you will loose the whole volume.
Steve Fisher
5 years ago
To the people having problems extending the first partition do you have an extended partition
on the drive? If so the second partition will be inside the extended one so you first need to
delete the volume which is inside the extended partition and then delete the extended partition.
After doing that you should see you have unallocated disk space and the first partition will now
extend as shown in the video.

Nikhil Patil
5 years ago
Great video but one question when I clear the second hard drive so it becomes allocated once I
right click to extend the first hard drive it doesn't give me a option to extend the first hard drive

Nikhil Patil
5 years ago
mee to

GTmoney5
5 years ago
you sir are a fucking BOSS

Anshul Garg
5 years ago
Thanks a lot :)

party5225
5 years ago
Great video but one question when I clear the second hard drive so it becomes allocated once I
right click to extend the first hard drive it doesn't give me a option to extend the first hard drive.
BigF0ig

5 years ago
Thanks for the video! Just what i needed.

Steve Fisher
6 years ago
I'm glad to hear it helped you out

titan118
6 years ago
nice and clear,, that's what we need,, and btw, thank you ^^