Asus C: and D: Drive Setting

Hi all.

It seems when you buy a brand new Asus laptop (e.g.. UX305UA) it comes setup with a partition for the C: drive and some on the D: drive.

We have a number of Asus laptops and in the past we would simply go to disk management, delete the D: partition and extend the C: partition to make one full size C: drive partition.

However the latest one (UX305UA) has come with the recovery partition in between the C: partition and D: partition meaning the C: partition cannot be extended ! Very annoying. Called ASUS and they basically said bad luck as they do not support putting the two together to make one larger partition.

I would prefer not to delete the recovery partition (assuming I can work out how), but that would seem the only way to enable me to combine C: and D:.

What have others on here done in relation to this issue, or do most people not care, and just run with the two separate partitions?

 

Most likely you will have to do clean windows install to be able to combine the two partitions. But then no recovery partition. However if you are capable to do a clean install then there is no need anymore for that recovery partition.

 

Since your recovery partition between C and D, there is no way to extend C or combine the two with disk management. You can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to merge two primary partitions which has no limitation as DM.

 

If possible, you could clone the recovery partition (and the other partition, if necessary), save that image to a USB drive, delete those two partitions, and then extend C: while leaving just enough disk space for the recovery to be reapplied. From there, you can use the image you created to reapply it to the empty/unallocated space (you may need to format it for NTFS first).

That's all pretty convoluted though. If you try anything, it's always advised you back up the recovery image first. Without it, you're looking at around $50 to order replacement recovery media, if I recall correctly.

 

Thanks for the responses. Based on a response I saw elsewhere I tried AOMEI partition assistant (FREE edition) and within 5 minutes I was able to delete D: drive, and merge the free space with C: drive, wait for a few reboots and all finished. C: drive was now the whole free space and the recovery partition was still in tact.

 

Glad that's taken care of.