Primary Partition vs Simple Volume

[Robert8x]

Hello, For some reason my HDD was split in to 2 partitions, so i deleted the one and added it to the other one, making it one drive again. But all my other drives say "Primary Partition" and my HDD now says "Simple Volume" and also says its a "Dynamic" Volume in the list. It is also split in to 3 parts even though its the same drive, as shown in the picture bellow:

Here is a screenshot of my Disk management, can someone help me put it back to one drive again like the others, without any data loss? Thanks, Rob.

 

[USAFRet]

That is all sorts of hosed up.

Disk 0 - 120GB SSD
The System Reserved should NOT be 14.42GB.It should be 300MB or 100MB

Disk 2 - 1BT HDD
How did we end up with 3 partitions all having the same drive letter?


How much actual used data is on the 1TB HDD?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

You have quite a mess there.

1. It would appear that at one time you had the OS on Disk 2 given the Tiny partition at the beginning of the drive

2. Curious how you have multiple partitions designated F:\ in Graphical view but only one on top

3. Easiest way is to cut / paste files off the partitions you don't want to one you want. Then, once empty, delete the volumes. Once deleted, you can expand the partition to take up the empty space

4, Meanwhile on the SSD the reserved partition is huge

5. Here''s what i did

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=windows+disk+management+merge+partitions&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

Should get you to (1st 2 hits)

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/19b60bc3-86a2-45d1-b2b5-16f9f3671a2b/how-to-merge-partitions-in-windows-7-?forum=w7itproperf

http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html

 

[Robert8x]

That is all sorts of hosed up.

Disk 0 - 120GB SSD
The System Reserved should NOT be 14.42GB.It should be 300MB or 100MB

Disk 2 - 1BT HDD
How did we end up with 3 partitions all having the same drive letter?


How much actual used data is on the 1TB HDD?

No idea how the system reserved is like that :/ and the hard drive has 900gb being used, the 3gb and 100mb have nothing on them, I just added them to to 900gb hoping it would all add together, yet instead just did that.

 

[Robert8x]

The 900gb is all games but since I'm at uni I'd rather not reinstall them all since my internet will probably get blocked

 

[JackNaylorPE]

How much actual used data is on the 1TB HDD?

Says 12% free so 88% of 1 TB .. about 880 GB, I'd guess