Question I'm unable to create a spanned volume whilst trying to combine disks ?

[nleosa]

Ive been trying to find the answer to how to combine two disks and i just deleted a volume in disk management while watching a tutorial and the tutorial said that i need to create a "New spanned volume" and i only have the option to create a "New simple volume" and ive looked this up and people are having the option to convert it to different things and i dont have that option. My partition stlye is a GPT and i dont know that to do now. This is an image of what my computer management looks like. https://ibb.co/wB1VT2P

I hope someone could see this and hopefully help me out, Thanks.

 

[dwd999]

Spanned volumes refers to data disks and does not include the system disk.

 

[nleosa]

Spanned volumes refers to data disks and does not include the system disk.

So what does this mean, what should i do?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Ive been trying to find the answer to how to combine two disks

That's a bad idea for multiple reasons.
And not really applicable to your situation.

tutorial said that i need to create a "New spanned volume" and i only have the option to create a "New simple volume"
So what does this mean, what should i do?

Create a simple volume. Format it, assign a drive letter.
And move your user data to the new drive.

 

[USAFRet]

while watching a tutorial and the tutorial said that i need to create a "New spanned volume"

Tutorial for what?

Spanned volumes are rarely a good idea.

 

[dwd999]

So what does this mean, what should i do?

Accept the fact that Microsoft does not want the system disk to be part of any spanned volume and get used to having 2 different disk drives.

 

[nleosa]

Accept the fact that Microsoft does not want the system disk to be part of any spanned volume and get used to having 2 different disk drives.

im trying to also make my D drive my main instead of my c and im having a hard time with it.

 

[dwd999]

im trying to also make my D drive my main instead of my c and im having a hard time with it.

You would clone your current C drive to your D drive. Many people here use the Macrium software to clone disk drives. During the cloning process you will be presented with an option to expand your primary partition on the C drive to fill the D drive. If you wish to have your C drive take up the entire drive that is what you would choose.

 

[USAFRet]

im trying to also make my D drive my main instead of my c and im having a hard time with it.

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.
(upload the pic to imgur.com, paste the link here)

More questions to follow.

 

[dwd999]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.
(upload the pic to imgur.com, paste the link here)

More questions to follow.

The image uploaded in the first message seems to show a 500 GB system drive and a new 2 TB drive. So it appears that cloning the old drive to the new bigger one might solve the problem.

 

[USAFRet]

The image uploaded in the first message seems to show a 500 GB system drive and a new 2 TB drive. So it appears that cloning the old drive to the new bigger one might solve the problem.

And a subsequent comment mentioned a D drive.
Which is not seen.

Just trying to get a grasp on the whole situation, before recommending any way forward.