Help with windows partition

[Lj_Parks]

so i gone and ducked up when ive installed my Nvme SSD

i had windows on a regualar ssd before and then did a fresh install on the samsung 950 nvme. for a time i could boot off both and as i needed a program on my old ssd that i needed and couldn't get hold of otherwise.

i have now no need for the program so formatted the drive. however it is still recognised as a boot drive and i cant delete the remaining partitions as they are apparantly being used by the windows on the nvme drive -_-

here is an capture of how by drives and partitions are arranged

Disk 3 is the drive i wish windows to be on and Disk 1 has the partitions i essentially have to move onto the other drive

ive had a google and cant see any answers.

can anybody help?

Thanks!

 

[Zefan]

I haven't used them myself, but I've heard of a lot of third party tools that might be able to do what you're after, although moving those sort of partitions around could be asking for trouble. Typically people are looking to move partitions to a different place on the same physical disk, this is a little different.

A crude fix would be to back up anything you really want to keep from your windows installation, then do a reinstall of Windows 10 on disk 3, making sure to create the recovery/EFI partitions on the desired drive too!

 

[Lj_Parks]

ive shrunk the volume on disk 3 so theres room for the partitions and ive found some cmd instructions but they seem a little sketchy and was hoping to find a safer method

fresh install does seem easiest at the minute though