Need help with merging my D partition to C

[ld50]

Hey all,

So I only had about 100GB of space left and I needed more and noticed that their was a D: that had nothing in it so I deleted it and tried to extend it, which was grayed out and I understand it because its contiguous.

I'm pretty sure that there is only 1 Hard Drive in this laptop (1GB) its an Alienware 18. When I pop up Device Manager I see under Disk Drives
Intel Raid 0 Volume
SK yhnix SH920 mSATA 256GB

I have the professional version of MiniTool Partition Wizard but since the drives are separated by one being Disk 1 and the other being Disk 2, that I'm not sure how to increase the C drive with this utility and have been at this for a few hours now trying to google the answer.

Could anybody shed some light on what I need to do. I'm pretty sure Dell/Alienware made some kind of recovery in that D partition but when I looked further into its details it only said that is was DATA but I tried to factory reset and I got Winload.exe blue screen error. So now that I think I've screwed up the recovery, I might as well make this HDD 1 whole drive ya?.

Thanks much.

 

[USAFRet]

Screenshot of your Disk Management window please.

 

[ld50]

 

[USAFRet]

You have 2 physical drives.
Disk 1 and Disk 2.

 

[ld50]

Sh*t. Ok I thought it was kindof odd that my C: Drive was only 704GB I didn't think there was any hard drives around that increment. Many thanks I'll just get Dell to repair it.

 

[ld50]

Another quick question. Since this was setup as RAID, Intel Rapid Boost is enabled now every time I restart I get an error from it. Is there anyway to disable (not uninstall) this program for now until I get it fixed?.

 

[USAFRet]

Dunno. Never messed with Rapid Boost .

 

[ld50]

Hey, dude, sorry for the bump, but would you please paste a screenshot of your disk layout in Disk Management (not MiniTool) with a full screen resolution. I am quite curious about your situation.

Sorry to get back to this thread so late, went on vacation. I went ahead and ordered new SSD/HDD drives and went ahead and just opened this thing up to add my own. Basically Dell/Alienware setup was 2, 2.5' 256GB SSD drives and a 256GB mSATA Drive in a RAID setup then they have another 256GB SSD as Recovery.

This is why I was only getting 704GB on my C: Drive and why there was another Disk (D) that wasn't RAID used as Recovery. Far stretch from the 1TB of SSD space I had ordered. Seems they cut some corners.

Now that I have it starting to be setup like it should be with a proper 1, SSD 1TB and some extra drives. I'm using that "D" drive that I wiped as recovery again and more storage on the mSATA and extra HDD slot.