If you have a partitioned hard disk and you are running out of
space on one of the partitions, you can choose to merge partitions operation or extend partition to add free space into
the partition which is in low disk space. For example, your computer has three
partitions - C, D, F. Windows 7 is installed on C: and C: is 25.43GB and has no free
space, while D: is 74.47GB and there is enough free space. How can you solve the problem
of C drive is running out of space?
Merge two partitions into one big partition
For this case, the C drive is running out of space, while the D drive has more free
space. Thus, you can try to allocate free space from D drive to C drive, or, you can
merge C drive and D drive to increase the C drive’s partition. But how to merge
partitions on disk without losing data?
Now you want to merge D: into C without
formatting C and without reinstalling Windows 7. How
to merge C drive and D drive without losing data? This is an important topic
for all the users because if you merge Drive C and Drive D improperly, you may lose
your data which would cost you some hundred dollars to recover your data.
Using AOMEI Partition Assistant to merge partitions
Windows built-in Disk Management does not support merge partitions. Thus, you need to
find a third party software to merge partitions. The AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard should
be a great alternative to Windows Disk Management. It supports create partition,
delete partition, format partition, resize partition, merge partitions and so on.
For merge partitions, here are some tips for you:
Note:
You could merge any unallocated space into any existing partition.
Partition Assistant could support at maximum two partitions merging every
time.
To merge partitions, the two partitions must be adjacent.
You can merge data partition into system partition, but could not merge system
partition in to data partition.
In Windows 7 the "system reserved" partition could not be merged.
Step1.Using AOMEI Partition Assistant to merge partitions, you canfree download it. Install and launch it. And
you can see the basic environment of your disks. For merge partitions on disk, here
you can choose one of the partition you want to merge to another, right click it,
select Merge Partitions.

Step3. Then, it will pop out a window where you can choose to merge
the drive to the other drive. Select it, and click Next.

Step4. You will back to the main interface and you will see that the
two partitions have already been merged on the disk. Click Apply at
the toolbar to submit the whole progress.

This is for how to combine 2 partitions in hard disk. You only need to proceed two
steps using the specific professional software with smooth performance and high
reliability, no need to worry about data loss or spend time again to install your
Windows operating system.
In addition, AOMEI Partition
Assistant Professional (PA Pro), this Windows partition manager is more
flexible for you to choose which partition for resizing drive (adjust partition
size), it also accomplishs these functions such as allocate free space, clone disk, copy partition, dynamic disk
management and so on in Partition Assistant.

