How to Merge Non Adjacent Partitions on Windows7/8/10?

How Can I Combine Non Adjacent Partitions on Windows 10?

“My system drive nearly been run out of space, I have another drive which has a lot of unallocated space, but it is not adjacent to C drive, how can I merge these two partitions on Windows 10?”

When you run out of C drive, it is a good solution to merge the C drive to another partition which has a lot of unallocated space. The choice most people prefer to is using Disk Management or partition manage program. I will analyse these two solutions and introduce the specific steps to merge non adjacent partitions on Windows 10/8/7.

Merge Non Adjacent Partitions on Disk Management

For most situations, Disk Management can be the easiest way to manage partitions on Windows system, for example, you can extend, shrink, delete, format, merge partitions at Windows Disk Management. But Disk Management tool and command prompt can only work for the situation when there is unallocated partition space adjacent to it. You will find the “Extend Volume” option grey out when you try to extend a drive which has no unallocated partition space adjacent to it.

So how to merge non adjacent partitions on Windows system? You can try another way.

Free to Merge Non Adjacent Partitions on Windows 10/8/7

You can try a partition manage programs to make it. Here I have a free software to recommend to you, IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free, which is a free software to manage your disk partitions. You can use it to extend, shrink, format, wipe, delete partitions and make your computer perform better.

Steps to Merge Non Adjacent Partitions on Windows

1. Download and install IM-Magic Partition Resizer free on your computer, run the program.

2. Select the drive you want to merge, right click it, choose “Merge Partition”, then it will pop out a list window, you can choose the partition which has unallocated space.

Merge non adjacent partitions on Windows

3. Apply the changes and confirm it.

Merge non adjacent partitions on Windows

Combine Non Adjacent Partitions on Windows Server

If your computer system is Windows server system, you can also use IM-Magic Partition Resizer server edition to manage your disk partitions.