Consolidating Scattered Partition Chunks?


  1. nigelmercier
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    Consolidating Scattered Partition Chunks?


    The hard drive of my notebook PC looks like this in Disk Manager:

    Consolidating Scattered Partition Chunks?-diskman.png

    As you can see, the partition named My Files is split into three "chunks" (what are they actually called?).

    Is there a way of consolidating these scattered partition chunks?
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  3. Berton
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    Just a guess but the result you see is because the drive is set up as Dynamic instead of the default Basic. A Basic drive doesn't usually allow duplicate-lettered partitions.
    Basic and Dynamic Disks (Windows)
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  4. nigelmercier
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    They aren't duplicate lettered partitions, they are parts of the same partition.
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  6. NavyLCDR
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    nigelmercier said:
    Is there a way of consolidating these scattered partition chunks?
    Free Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk Without Data Loss - EaseUS
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  7. dalchina
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    Mm, where's your Win 10 Recovery partition?
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