Extend a Drive in Windows When The Unallocated Space is to The Left, to The Right or Not Even Close

To extend a partition properly, the unallocated space needs to be to the right of that partition.
But what if it's not? What if it's to the left, or what if it's not even close to the partition you are trying to extend?
What then?

There's a simple answer to these quastions and more in this video.
And the best thing is . . . you don't need any 3rt party tools.
Use only free tools that are already included in Windows.

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[thewhynet]

So, what do you think?
Are you planning to extend all your partitions now?

[MichaelFrimlPhotography]

finally nice video explaining it all. I have watched some other and it is mostly chaotic explanation. Thank you.

[servermatter]

Please provide a method to move unallocated space at the left of the rescue partition on operating system drive if you are able to work that out

[shineLouisShine]

I came here to learn how to extend my basic disk, while my C has 1.36GB free memory out of 116GB in total,
And my D has 286 GB free out of 917 GB.
Unfortunately, unless missed it, I can't say that this video spot a light on the solution I'm looking for 😔

[akk]

Nice explanation.

But you missed one crucial one especially being that you were using a virtual machine and so could have taken a snapshot to avoid re-installing - meaning, you could show all manner of problems that would arise if you made a mistake.

So, here's my question/scenario? Imagine I'm trying to go from a 500GB to 4TB SSD. If I clone the disk, I get plenty of empty unallocated space at the end of the disk. There are 4 partitions between it the the free space. Can I successfully expand my main Windows partition and be able to boot without issue?

[hrsh_efx]

on trying to extend my partition it gives me an error saying there is not enough space on the disk but my disk is empty

[EvergrowingYT]

Still doesnt solve my problem :( I installed a Dual Boot on the same SSD with Linux being installed first. Linux has 2 partitions, then comes my empty space which I want to add to C:, then comes a 14MB (or so) partition that is only visible under GParted but not under Windows, then comes my Windows (C:) partition. I cannot click extend and I'm pretty sure I must not delete the 14MB partition from GParted or some live Linux. Any ideas on this?

[angrycrackers]

I want to shift unallocated part to right side by ease us software is their any problem if i do it

[folkfingerstylefreddy]

What if you want to do this with windows drive?