[SOLVED] Problem with disk management for my HDD

[alex995]

I have this problem:
I want to extend my C drive so that it has 300 GB of space, but my D drive apparently is on another disk. I do NOT have 2 phisical disks, just one HDD of 1 TB, but disk management sees 2 disks ( disk 0 and disk 1). How do i get back to having just one disk, so that i can extend my C drive from my D drive ? Image i uploaded for better understanding the issue at : https://ibb.co/b7xCjMc

 

[Colif]

931gb is about right for a 1tb drive after its formatted, you sure you don't have two drives.

what are details of the PC? is it a laptop or desktop?

there is no way you get more than 1tb of space on a 1tb drive after formatting, if it was one drive, then 931 + 73.70 is 1004 which is more than you can have on a 1tb drive after formatting.

 

[Colif]

it looks to me like you have maybe a 80tb drive of some sort in there as well, maybe an ssd. And win 10 has put itself on the smallest space when it would be better on the hdd.

Some laptops are sold with a 1tb hdd and a smaller ssd for caching. 80gb seems a bit large for that purpose but really way too small for windows.

try running speccy and see if it shows 1 or 2 drives - https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download

 

[SkyNetRising]

I want to extend my C drive so that it has 300 GB of space,

You can't.

I do NOT have 2 phisical disks, just one HDD of 1 TB, but disk management sees 2 disks ( disk 0 and disk 1).

Yes - you have 2 disks. One of them could be M.2 or MSATA SSD on motherboard. Easy to miss it, if you don't know, what to look for.

How do i get back to having just one disk, so that i can extend my C drive from my D drive ?

Again - you can't.

 

[alex995]

Good day, sir!
Thank you for the quick response.
The PC is a Dell laptop Alienware 18 deployed in the year 2014. Actually I am not sure( do i need to unscrew the back of the laptop to check?)... but from what I know there is only 1 HDD of 1 TB... the wheird thing is the C drive has exactly 74.53 GB of space, and i wanted more space in drive C.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from Device Manager (disk drives section expanded) ?

 

[Colif]

STORAGE: 80GB SSD + 1000GB HDD

Alienware 18

Visit the post for more.

laptopmedia.com

always fun when you find new hardware in your PC you didn't know you had.

now i don't know if you can remove it but I would suggest doing so and reinstalling win 10 on hdd again. Its about best fix.

https://www.myfixguide.com/manual/dell-alienware-18-disassembly/ - shows how to replace/remove drives

 

[alex995]

Can you show screenshot from Device Manager (disk drives section expanded) ?

i actually ran speccy and found out that i have 2 disks, thank you for the responses and all the help!

 

[alex995]

Thank you both for the help, I will try to move windows 10 from the 80 GB SSD to the HDD ( that's gonna be a whole adventure for me as well, i hope i can do it XD ), since you said it would be better. Thread can be closed. Thank you so much!

 

[Colif]

ideally remove ssd before reinstalling on hdd, otherwise win 10 will just use it the ssd again.

follow this guide: https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/

 

[alex995]

Thank you! I will follow the tutorial.