Recovering 350mb Unalocated Space

spunk said:

You can only extend a volume if the Unallocated Space is to the Right of the Partition (Volume) you wish to extend. The 351 MB volume is Left of both partitions. You cannot extend to the left unless you use a 3rd party partitioning tool. Doing this may destroy the C: drives boot file and not worth it.
As has been stated, 351 MB is just too small and insignificant to use or worry about.

I agree.. it's not worth the effort or possible issues for that amount of storage.
Jeff

Actually, I would install minitool partition wizard free and then you can move the C drive to the left.

However, I would do this for a different reason, as it seems a bit daft to have a 900+ GB C drive and only a 4 GB D drive.

Personally, if it was me, I would reduce the C drive to around 300 GB, and make the D drive 600+GB. Then I would only use the C drive for OS+programs, and the D drive for data storage. This makes reinstalling OS+programs easier as it would not affect D drive (assuming you do it carefully). Of course, you have a second drive anyway, but it does not hurt to keep valuable data kept on at least two drives.

cereberus said:

Actually, I would install minitool partition wizard free and then you can move the C drive to the left.

However, I would do this for a different reason, as it seems a bit daft to have a 900+ GB C drive and only a 4 GB D drive.

Personally, if it was me, I would reduce the C drive to around 300 GB, and make the D drive 600+GB. Then I would only use the C drive for OS+programs, and the D drive for data storage. This makes reinstalling OS+programs easier as it would not affect D drive (assuming you do it carefully). Of course, you have a second drive anyway, but it does not hurt to keep valuable data kept on at least two drives.

Good call. I agree that having an external/internal D drive would be much better and then just merge the current D with the C. Given the cost of drives these days a 1tb drive is dirt cheap.

Agree that Minitool will easily do the job. And safely. (that 350 MB looks suspiciously like it used to be a recovery partition). C should be shrunk. 126GB is way more than you need for an OS partition. Also appears the box is legacy, not UEFI. And if it's not already, set the drive to GPT, not MBR, with MiniTool. Allows for future primary partitions, should the need ever arise.

f14tomcat said:

Agree that Minitool will easily do the job. And safely. (that 350 MB looks suspiciously like it used to be a recovery partition). C should be shrunk. 126GB is way more than you need for an OS partition. Also appears the box is legacy, not UEFI. And if it's not already, set the drive to GPT, not MBR, with MiniTool. Allows for future primary partitions, should the need ever arise.

You cannot change drive with OS to GPT if using a legacy bios install.

You can change a data drive but rarely needed unless greater than 2.2 TB.