Two Hard drives partition issue during installation windows 10.

[AteeqUR]

Hi, sir i need a help about my hp operating system as i was using 1TB hard drive and i upgraded my system with another

256GB SSD. but when i installed windows to my SSD but it  gives an erroro f GPT and on the other hand it shows 2 windows on my hard drive and that 1TB hard drive is partitioned into 2 drives and i want to make it one drive without loosing any data from it and also i want to install Frest windows in my SDD.

[WAWood]

@AteeqUR

The simple way to have Windows on the SSD would be to disconnect the HDD, boot from the install media (with only the SSD connected) and install Windows.  That will automatically create the partitions needed on the SSD.

As to the "drives" on the HDD, any Windows disk will have more than one partition on it, and a PC that came preinstalled with Win10 might have as many as four.

There is no way to "combine" multiple partitions into one, so if you believe the second one on your HDD has valuable files and folders on it, you would have to do the following:

1) Copy those files and folders to the first partition -- the one you want to keep

2) Confirm the files and folders got copied

3) Remove the second partition (you can do this in Disk Management)

4) Expand the first partition to use the room now made available by removing the second partition (which you can also do in Disk Management).

[AteeqUR]

Sir, let me explain it more specifically. I'm dealing with the issue is how i can recover the data from unallocated partition drive, i can't find the combined partition (in THIS PC) drive (unallocated).

I have already 1TB HDD in my system parted 300GB & 700GB and the data is in 700GB. When I setup the SSD drive and installed win10. I deleted 300GB and extened into 700GB then the unallocated issue appears.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@AteeqUR

You have to use third-party software to recover files and folders from unallocated space; Windows built-in file utilities will not do that.

You need to do the following:
1) Download and install this utility http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/recover_data_in_3_steps_with_minitool_power_data_recovery_free_...
2) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the drive.
 
If that tool does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva  http://www.piriform.com/recuva
 
And, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the trial version is free  http://www.file-recovery.com/

[AteeqUR]

Thanks sir!