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I have a Windows 10 VM on a Mac using VMWare Fusion. I just extended the disk from 60 GB to 80GB. Now I'm trying to figure out how to add that space to my C: drive. The option to "Extend Volume..." is grayed out because there's a "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" between my C: partition and the new unallocated space.

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Is there any way to add this new space to the C: drive without using expensive third party software?

Patrick McElhaney
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From the comments, it sounds like:

  1. It can't be done with Windows' built in Disk Management tool.
  2. The de facto solution is "just use GParted", which is free, open-source, and cross platform.

The suggestion to delete the recovery partition using the built-in diskpart (more here on how to use DiskPart to remove the recovery partition) command line tool worked for me, so in this case I ended up not needing to worry about non-contiguous partitions.

Tiago Peres
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Patrick McElhaney
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