Workaround to expand boot drive to non-contiguous unallocated area of drive?

I cloned my (C: ) to a 1 TB ssd drive with Macrinum Reflect 6.  After replacing the old drive with the cloned drive, the PC booted correctly and everything work as expected.  What a relief! 

BUT, (there’s always one, huh?) I cannot figure out how to expand (C: ) to use that big, beautiful chunk of unallocated space that Windows 10 Pro Disk Management says I have available, shown in attachments.

I’m almost certain I’ve expanded (C: ) into unallocated space via Disk Management in the past but it could have been in a different PC.   

Win 10 Pro won’t allow it now because these are not contiguous areas. I understand the first two partitions contain the data that boots the PC but I don't know why there is a recovery partition after (C: )

Is there a free or low cost program that will let me expand the boot drive to take advantage of the unallocated space? 

Thanks for any guidance!

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https://www.paragon-software.com/free/pm-express/#  Try I guess. Edit : note pics too small for me to see/read on this.

Edited by Pkshadow, 03 June 2024 - 06:57 PM.

Partition Master, see https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html .

Louis

Using a third party partition manager as posted above you would need to move the Recovery Partition to the end of the drive. This would give you unallocated space after C:. Then resize C: into the unallocated space.

This is for Partition Wizard but the way partitions are moved and resized are the same as any third party partition manager.

https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/resize-partition.html

Thank you all for helping me out!!!

I'm going to do a backup first & while that's running, I will take a look at the programs you suggested.  Hopefully the documentation is enough that I can figure this out.  If not, well, I'll be back with more questions.

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This video gives you an idea on how to resize and move partitions. The method is common among third party partition managers.