Hey!
Can I merge two in-use partitions without losing data in either partition? One is the os-drive if that changes anything
#Merge partitions | Win 11
rustic silo
lone cipher
to my knowledge you cannot do this in Windows natively, but there are 3rd party applications that claim to do this without losing data
From an article:
AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard
EaseUS Partition Master Free
Mini Tool Partition Wizard
GParted Disk Partition
Paragon Partition Manager
rustic silo
Do you happen to know if they require the partitions to be adjacent?
lone cipher
I believe with the first option it should be possible, but I have never tried something like this myself
rustic silo
Guess I’m just gonna have to try
Thanks
I guess the bigger problem would all location references
lone cipher
if you want to play it safe you could copy the data to another drive and just delete one partition, then grow the other
or do it in steps:
copy some files to the "main" partition. shrink the 2nd partition, grow the main partition. etc repeat
rustic silo
True true
I was thinking of buying another drive anyways. So might wait until I do that, then copy everything from the 2nd partition to that
Then delete it and grow the main prtition
lone cipher
I do believe that is the conventional way to do it
rustic silo
Myeah
I guess I can also ask, regarding buy a new drive. Does the speeds at all affect performance in programs like fusion360? Or will it just be on initial open then it’s all in ram?
lone cipher
realistically any ssd is fine, even SATA ones
it might shave a few seconds off the startup time if you buy a fast one, but if you look up those speed comparison videos it's negligable
rustic silo
Is dram still important?
lone cipher
yeah that is still important