Windows 10 How to remove unallocated partition in Windows

[tck13]

I have a laptop that I installed an ssd(had to swap the hdd and merge the ssd over) however whenever I do a cold boot I have to go into the bios in order to boot.

I'm assuming my issue lies with how many partitions I have and their order. I saw that I have an unallocated partition and Cannot delete it using the default partition manager. So I installed a third party partition app and to delete the partition, but I am unable to. I provide some screenshots to help with troubleshooting. Any help is much appreciated, I do not care about the contents on my ssd (recently formatted it) so all solutions welcome

 

[tck13]

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[tck13]

http://imgur.com/a/MTouM

 

[tck13]

I tried making the unallocated space a new simple volume, and when I do that and try to extend my C drive the extend is greyed out

 

[Neemobeer]

You can't at least not in Windows. You might be able to move the partitions in a live Linux disc or USB with gparted, but it is risky to move them. The safest method would be to format the disk and reinstall Windows.

 

[tck13]

to reinstall, do I need a key? I imagine I would put windows 10 on a usb drive and then boot from that but i'm not sure what I need for authentication purposes

 

[Neemobeer]

Yes you would need your key

 

[Neemobeer]

You can get your key like so...

• Open an elevated powershell prompt
• Type $(Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingService').OA3xOriginalProductKey

 

[tck13]

You can get your key like so...

• Open an elevated powershell prompt
• Type $(Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingSerivce').OAxOriginalProductKey

hmm says SoftwareLicensingService is an invalid class

 

[Neemobeer]

Shouldn't be are you sure you typed the command exact? you could even copy and paste everything in bold

There was a missing 3 in the property name, fixed, but that wouldn't throw an invalid class exception

 

[tck13]

yeah copy and pasted

 

[tck13]

Should I be in a particular directory or does it not matter?

 

[Neemobeer]

No it shouldn't matter.

 

[tck13]

Get-WmiObject : Invalid class "SoftwareLicensingSerivce"

weird

 

[Neemobeer]

You misspelled Service

 

[tck13]

you misspelled service

 

[Neemobeer]

Indeed

 

[tck13]

how to format disk with windows on it?

 

[tck13]

formatted and reinstalled windows removing my unallocated space. but still from cold boot I get a default boot device missing