This article is about how to merge two drives in Windows 10 without losing data, you can use this useful way to extend your system drive, and better manage your disk partitions.
If you have unallocated partition on your computer, merging two drives is a good way to extend partition. It will make your disk run smoothly, and spare you more free space to save data.
To avoid running out of system drive space, extending system partition is necessary, it is more convenient to merge two drives to get more space for system drive.
Some people will choose Disk Management function to extend or shrink partition, for Windows 10 users, they will need to extend drive to make it, it is not that easy to use, and it doesn’t have merge function, you can extend volume if there is some contiguous unallocated space. This is also a good way to extend volume in Windows 10 for free.
Step 1: Enter Disk Management, choose the local drive you want to extend, right click it and choose to “Extend Volume”.
Step 2: It will pops out a window and asks you to choose a unallocated space, you can merge these two drives.
Merge partitions with disk management tool
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Free to Merge Partitions with IM-Magic Partition Resizer
Step1: Install IM-Magic Partition Resizer free on your computer, run the program, you will see all the partitions of your disk listed.
Step2: Choose the partition 1 you want to merge, right click it and choose “merge partition” option, it will pops out a window, you can choose the partition 2 which you want to merge with partition 1.
Merge two local drives in Windows 10 with freeware
Step3: Confirm the operation and apply the changes.
Then you can merge two local drives without data loss.
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