space lost after merging partitions

[juaron]

Disk director is doing some things that I didn’t expect. I have deleted and wiped a partition I no longer needed. After doing this, I had some 2.5G of unallocated space. I could not figure out how to add this unallocated space to one of my other partitions, so I created a new partition out of this unallocated space and named it disk G. Then I tried to merge partition G with my partition F, which was 15G. After the merge, I have ended up with only one partition F, but it’s only 2.5G in size, which is partition G’s old size. I have completely lost the 15G of partition F.
Does anyone know how to solve this?


I "solved" my problem: when I looked properly, I noticed that the partition wasn't 15Gb, but 15Mb... so the merge went allright, I just didn't notice the extra 15Mb being added to 2.5Gb. :-[

[Gidds]

Is this the proper way to reclaim unallocated space?

First, make it into a new partition
Second, merge this new partition into the one i want bigger
??

I was trying to reclain space on my home pc yesterday and it was working so well :(

[K0LO]

No, using the "merge" function is not the right way to do this. What you want to do is to "resize" one of your existing partitions to include the unallocated space.

[Gidds]

So click Re-size on an existing partition
and then I'll be able to increase it to the value of the unpartitioned space??

I don't think i tried that
but i will shortly!!

Thanks

[MudCrab]

Is the unallocated space located next to the partition you want to make larger?