[SOLVED] Disk partition issue

[Parselmouth]

I have deleted drive D from my new computer (there was nothing on it) and now think that I need to restore it in order to install my stuff. I was trying to merge the drives but it does not seem possible to do this as I have tried to extend drive C and it will not give me the option to extend the drive. (I was advised to do this by someone on the Lenovo forums however they seem to have disappeared and I am in a worse situation than I was before.)

Could someone please advise on how to restore the drive, or merge them?

The computer is a Lenovo A540-24ICB.

Many thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[scout_03]

you could not extend c drive to d drive also what do you see under peripheral for the drive in system try to see if you press on top to find new device what system will tel you it might restore the d drive .

 

[Parselmouth]

I took a screen shot and saved it in Paint in both .png and .jpeg format, but when I tried to load it onto Imgur, it wouldn't load.

 

[rgd1101]

imgur website click new post on the top left
copy and paste

 

[Parselmouth]

https://imgur.com/a/6Qi1ofu

View: https://imgur.com/a/6Qi1ofu


Hopefully this has worked.

 

[rgd1101]

Should have a 512GB ssd on that model are you sure you got the right model?

and no, don't extend, storage spaces ssd with hdd

 

[USAFRet]

Right click where it says Unallocated.
Then:
New Simple Volume
Format
Give it a drive letter.

You'll then have a 1TB D drive to use as you wish.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Hopefully this has worked.

Your drive C: has ZERO! free space.
Clean it up,
delete unnecessary stuff,
set up drive D: as instructed above,
move pagefile to D: drive,
move necessary user files to D: drive.

And NO - you can not extend C: drive. You can only move data away from it to make more free space.

 

[Parselmouth]

Right click where it says Unallocated.
Then:
New Simple Volume
Format
Give it a drive letter.

You'll then have a 1TB D drive to use as you wish.

Thanks very much, I just wasn't sure when it said Format that it wouldn't format the whole thing and wipe Windows, so I have followed the instructions successfully and will go from there.

 

[SkyNetRising]

BTW - windows will stop working, if drive C: has zero free space.

 

[Parselmouth]

SkyNetRising, I am aware of that.

I literally only bought the computer yesterday and am trying to load my stuff. I was not aware that the drive was partitioned that way, the last time I bought a computer the D drive was only tiny for recovery. C currently contains Origin and a whole bunch of Sims games that have been downloaded and I am trying to migrate them to the D drive, however not helped by someone on the Lenovo forum who told me to delete the D drive so I could merge it with C. Turns out I could not.

Why don't they tell you about these things when they are changed, it seems the general public are supposed to learn these things by some kind of magic. I checked out the manual for the model and there was no information on this whatsoever. I don't know why they even bother producing manuals, they never tell you what you need to know.

 

[rgd1101]

it this used?

 

[USAFRet]

The Lenovo Forum person was operating on incomplete information, giving a standard answer.
This is why screencaps here are so important...so that we are all on the same page.

 

[neojack]

@Parselmouth

you won't find that kind of information in a mainstream PC documentation.
It's part of the training of PC IT.
For exemple if you want to pass some certifications (comptia A+), you have to read a 400 pages book, where stuff like that is explained in details. (file systems, partitions, basic/dynamic disks , limitations, redondancy , etc)

to clean your C Drive :
- uninstall your games and isntall them on D:

-C is a tiny 100gb partition. you can only fit windows and basic apps on it (browser, maybe office)

- windows also alocates a lot of space when it updates itself. to clean this space follow this :

How to Run Disk Cleanup (Cleanmgr.exe) on Windows Server | Windows OS Hub

The Disk Cleanup tool allows the administrator to quickly clean up the Windows Server system drive by deleting unnecessary and temporary files, including cleaning the WinSxS directory from files of…

woshub.com

But if it was me, i would reinstall windows since it's a 2nd hand computer. but im an IT guy and i understand that kind of stuff can be difficult for beginners.

 

[Parselmouth]

Its not second hand, lol I bought it brand new from Currys (UK) only yesterday. I am far from a beginner but I haven't had a new computer for four years so it seems that things have changed and I would have had no reason to know that until now.

I appreciate that SOME people might prefer their drive pre-partitioned like this, but I can only see that it will cause me far more problems than it solves, as it already has.

 

[USAFRet]

Its not second hand, lol I bought it brand new from Currys (UK) only yesterday. I am far from a beginner but I haven't had a new computer for four years so it seems that things have changed and I would have had no reason to know that until now.

I appreciate that SOME people might prefer their drive pre-partitioned like this, but I can only see that it will cause me far more problems than it solves, as it already has.

That's not "prepartitioned", that is two physical drives.
128GB (SSD?) for the OS, and 1TB for other stuff.

 

[Parselmouth]

For exemple if you want to pass some certifications (comptia A+), you have to read a 400 pages book, where stuff like that is explained in details. (file systems, partitions, basic/dynamic disks , limitations, redondancy , etc)

It's not reasonable for developers to expect their regular customers who might have been using computers for years to read a 400 page book every time they buy a new computer. Surely you can see that?

I have worked it out now, no thanks at all to Lenovo. And I mean for causing the problem in the first place, not the guy on the forum.

Thanks to those here who helped me.