Solved Reordering rearranging partitions

Hi,

I had a new laptop computer preinstalled windows 8.
On my computer there are two partitions C and D. C has 372GBs and D has 537GBs.
As an old school habbit i wanted to shrink C down to something about 150 and add the rest ~220 to D. However while this is a preinstalled laptop i have another partition between C and D as seen on picture (i hope you can see)

I am not that hopeful on this but if i shrink C and get a raw 220 gb partition (question comes here)

is there any way to merge that partition to D?

If not, what would you advise on having a third partition. Will it effect my HDD's performance?

I use this Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

Works fine for me.

Edit link should just be mini Partition manager.

adamf said:

I use this Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

Works fine for me.

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Thanks adamf,

i've installed this already but i wonder if i can merge the new partition to D while there is another partition between C and D (seen as NTFS 350.00 MB on the picture) like a system volume... now i remember something . i've created a windows usb stick / backup in case of upgrading to an SSD using these commands in cmd which i saw on web:

wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:X: -include:C: -allCritical –quiet, where X is the drive to place the image (WindowsImageBackup), e.g. replace X with D or E

During this backup there was logs like "350.00MB created".

Now i have a mystery. Is it that partition or a system partition which will needed later? I'll check and mark this post solved if so.

I think not. System partitions always appear at the start not in the middle of a disk.

Why don't you make a backup and then delete it. That is what I'd do (actually I'd delete and hope for the best but I can't recommend that really).

Or you can use partition manager to move it to the end of the disk and then merge the other two. 2 steps but you still get to keep your (probably pointless) partition just in case.

How come i thought that "empty" D volume is not portable? and how come i thought this wierd partition will be needed for e new SSD upgrade?
I did it
1. deleted D
2. moved 350.00MB partition to end
3. resized C
4. created D.
Partitions now,


i guess i posted the thread with a stalled mind.
Thank you adamf

Your welcome. Generally a different drive is good but partitions are pointless - at least from a performance point of view.

Mind you I have 4 partitions (OS, VMs, Data and scratch) so I can't talk really. I find it makes backups easier but for sure makes my system slower.