cannot merge recovery partition

[ElectronicBear]

I installed w10 on my primary SSD drive and I saw the half a GB recovery partition. I deleted it with EaseUS partition manager and have been trying to merge its space with the primary data partition on the same C: drive but for some reason I cannot.

I've also tried the windows disk management but no luck.

with easeus partition manager, when I try to merge the 2 partitions, it won't let me select both. If I delete the empty partition, the option to resize the primary partition disappears.

I can access the small partition separately, it appears as a E: drive half a GB big. I can copy files into it, but I'd like to merge it with the primary partition.

any idea?
thanks

 

[Burpo]

Here's Windows 7 procedure.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...s/70149f78-8cca-4ef4-8026-e7739aa3c299?auth=1

"Andre Da Costa

Click Start, right click Computer
Click Manage
Expand Disk Management

Select the Recovery Partition
Right click it, click 'Format'
You will receive a Warning dialog, click OK to continue.

The next step is to select your file system option, in this case, go with the default which is NTFS.
The formatting process will now begin.
Once complete, the drive will be displayed as a ‘Logical Drive’ in Disk Management.

Right click the ‘Logical Drive’ in Disk Management, on the contextual menu, click the ‘Delete Volume’ option. Click ‘Yes’ when the warning dialog appears.
The Volume you deleted will now appear as ‘Free space’, you will also notice that the disk icon no longer appears in the list of volumes.
Right click the Free space partition, and click Delete, click Yes on the Disk Management warning that appears.


The volume will now appear as Unallocated. (good stuff). Our next step is to merge back that unallocated free space with the system partition. Right click the System volume and click the ‘Extend Volume’ option on the contextual menu, click ‘Yes’ when the warning appears.

A wizard will now begin that will guide through the steps to merge back the unallocated space with your system partition.

The wizard provides a simple procedure to merge back the unallocated space in second screenshot above with system drive. Once you have selected the space, click Next, at the end of the wizard, you will see the amount allocated. "

 

[ElectronicBear]

thanks but I already tried that and the option to merge/extend are not available. that is what's puzzling and I can't find a reason

 

[Burpo]

You did all of that? You created the partition & reformatted it, the deleted the Volume so as to appear as Unallocated space? It should be done this way. There has to be Unallocated space to extend the volume.

 

[ElectronicBear]

yes I followed the steps to the letter and at the final step:

"Right click the System volume and click the ‘Extend Volume"

the option is grayed out.

 

[Ketchup]

So is the space now unallocated, or does it still have a letter/format type?

 

[ElectronicBear]

either, depending if I make it into a partition or leave it unallocated. I can use it, I just can't merge it into the system partition