Reformatting drive but can't merge system partition

TitusPullo

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Hi all,

I just got an SSD and am running Windows 7 Ultimate off of it.

My next step was to reformat my 1.5TB former hard drive, and make it my data drive for holding installed apps/games etc.

I go to Disk Manager and see the 1.5TB drive is split into two, the latter being a "System Reserved" partition of 147MB.

So I delete the reserved partition, it turns into unallocated space. Then I attempt to Extend Volume on the remaining healthy partition, but when I click OK, I get first a warning that I'm changing it to a "dynamic" drive, then when I click Next I get an error message saying "there is not enough space on this hard disk" to merge the two partitions.

WTF?

Should I even care at this point? I could just reformat the main partition and leave 147MB of unallocated space floating around, but that seems annoying and stupid.
 

Slugbait

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System Reserved partition contains boot files. Since the drive is no longer the boot drive, the hidden partition is no longer needed.

Delete both partitions, then recreate as one partition. Format, yer done.