How to "merge" 2 partitions, Disk 0 & Disk 1, One HDD

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Hello, so a few years ago i bought this pc and as Always i make 2 partitions one for backup and the other for windows and all the other stuff.

So today i wanted to reinstall windows because the Disk 0 partition fitness was 0% and randomly freezing. as my other half was like 70-80% fitness (rated by Speedfan). But this never happened to me, usually Partition C and D Always were on the same "disk #" and now they are separated and i just cant get them back.

now i want to put them back together and make one whole HDD, any way to get them back to eachother?

with this ill add some pictures, since a picture says more than 1000 words. if someone could help i would be verry happy. greets.
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And Edit, maybe usefull. i've noticed my partitions turned into 2 different "bus numbers"
Bus number 0 and bus number 1
 

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I don't get why the system is MBR instead of GPT. Esp. since it looks like you have a HD larger than 2 TB. How did W8 get on the machine originally?
 

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I don't get why the system is MBR instead of GPT. Esp. since it looks like you have a HD larger than 2 TB. How did W8 get on the machine originally?


Well the pc was windows 7, when win8 came out i immediatly upgraded. After a year or so i came back to win 7 because pc was just freezing alot. And just now ive made a new fresh install of win8 again and wanted the full hd to use as one partition and not separated. And yes my HD is 3TB
 

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That's quite simple, just right click your windows drive ( ie - C: (1863.01 GB) and choose expand and then just look at the amount of unallocated space (1347.09 GB) u have and then just type in that amount when asked.
 

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That's quite simple, just right click your windows drive ( ie - C: (1863.01 GB) and choose expand and then just look at the amount of unallocated space (1347.09 GB) u have and then just type in that amount when asked.

No its not that simple. If it was i wouldnt post this thread. I already tried such things and also tried some 3th party partition software but with the expand/merge thing was just greyed out for that while those smaller. Like recovery could expand.
 

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Looking at your disk management screen, you have two physical hard drives. Disk 0 and disk 1 Drive C:\ Disk 1 has 99% free space. I'm guessing Windows is installed to E which has 60% free space. The unallocated must have been D. The only way I know to make your two drives look like one drive is to go dynamic. I wouldn't go that way myself. I'd install Windows to Disk 0 and use disk 1 for Data. The other way to do it on the one drive is to repartition Disk 0 into two separate partitions.
 

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That's quite simple, just right click your windows drive ( ie - C: (1863.01 GB) and choose expand and then just look at the amount of unallocated space (1347.09 GB) u have and then just type in that amount when asked.

No its not that simple. If it was i wouldnt post this thread. I already tried such things and also tried some 3th party partition software but with the expand/merge thing was just greyed out for that while those smaller. Like recovery could expand.

Disk management will only let you expand a partition into unallocated space that is adjacent to the partition you want to expand. The free space would have to be at the end (to the right) of the partition your expanding. If its before that partition (to the left) or separated by another partition it won't let you expand into it. You also can't merge partitions that are on two different drives.
 

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Looking at your disk management screen, you have two physical hard drives. Disk 0 and disk 1 Drive C:\ Disk 1 has 99% free space. I'm guessing Windows is installed to E which has 60% free space. The unallocated must have been D. The only way I know to make your two drives look like one drive is to go dynamic. I wouldn't go that way myself. I'd install Windows to Disk 0 and use disk 1 for Data. The other way to do it on the one drive is to repartition Disk 0 into two separate partitions.

My E drive has not Windows installed, its clearly C drive and its so empty because its a fresh install. My E drive is a special partition made by the manufactors of this pc with all the drives instead of giving a CD i think.
and i only have one HD not 2. its a 3TB drive ive been splitting a long time ago. never had problems with it but then it made the pc think it has 2 HD's. its a very weird thing..
 

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I've never had a HD larger than 1 TB myself. But I have noticed drives > 2 TB on the forums can get weird issues. There are probably many here using HD > 2 TB without issues. But I don't think I would set up an MBR Windows system on one. Maybe GPT is more solid.

Granted, I'm just speculating.
 

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Looking at your disk management screen, you have two physical hard drives. Disk 0 and disk 1 Drive C:\ Disk 1 has 99% free space. I'm guessing Windows is installed to E which has 60% free space. The unallocated must have been D. The only way I know to make your two drives look like one drive is to go dynamic. I wouldn't go that way myself. I'd install Windows to Disk 0 and use disk 1 for Data. The other way to do it on the one drive is to repartition Disk 0 into two separate partitions.

My E drive has not Windows installed, its clearly C drive and its so empty because its a fresh install. My E drive is a special partition made by the manufactors of this pc with all the drives instead of giving a CD i think.
and i only have one HD not 2. its a 3TB drive ive been splitting a long time ago. never had problems with it but then it made the pc think it has 2 HD's. its a very weird thing..

As far as I know If it was just one drive there would only be a Drive 0 in disk management, split or not. Drive 0 and Drive 1 in disk management denote physical disk drives. Both of your screen shots show two hard drives. What does the BIOS show?
 

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Looking at your disk management screen, you have two physical hard drives. Disk 0 and disk 1 Drive C:\ Disk 1 has 99% free space. I'm guessing Windows is installed to E which has 60% free space. The unallocated must have been D. The only way I know to make your two drives look like one drive is to go dynamic. I wouldn't go that way myself. I'd install Windows to Disk 0 and use disk 1 for Data. The other way to do it on the one drive is to repartition Disk 0 into two separate partitions.

My E drive has not Windows installed, its clearly C drive and its so empty because its a fresh install. My E drive is a special partition made by the manufactors of this pc with all the drives instead of giving a CD i think.
and i only have one HD not 2. its a 3TB drive ive been splitting a long time ago. never had problems with it but then it made the pc think it has 2 HD's. its a very weird thing..

As far as I know If it was just one drive there would only be a Drive 0 in disk management, split or not. Drive 0 and Drive 1 in disk management denote physical disk drives. Both of your screen shots show two hard drives. What does the BIOS show?

yeah i never seen this before, split or not always was the same thing until now.
It is still just one single HD i dont know what happened to it. and the bios shows it as 2 drives too.
Could it be because i used various dual-boot OS's ? i used my D drive for few dual boots past this and last year.

This harddrive is split into
ST1500DL003-9VT16L
ST2000DL003-9VT166
 

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My E drive has not Windows installed, its clearly C drive and its so empty because its a fresh install. My E drive is a special partition made by the manufactors of this pc with all the drives instead of giving a CD i think.
and i only have one HD not 2. its a 3TB drive ive been splitting a long time ago. never had problems with it but then it made the pc think it has 2 HD's. its a very weird thing..

As far as I know If it was just one drive there would only be a Drive 0 in disk management, split or not. Drive 0 and Drive 1 in disk management denote physical disk drives. Both of your screen shots show two hard drives. What does the BIOS show?

yeah i never seen this before, split or not always was the same thing until now.
It is still just one single HD i dont know what happened to it. and the bios shows it as 2 drives too.
Could it be because i used various dual-boot OS's ? i used my D drive for few dual boots past this and last year.

This harddrive is split into
ST1500DL003-9VT16L
ST2000DL003-9VT166

Open up your case and have a look inside. I think you'll find two hard drives, not just one. Those are hardware ID's for the drives.
ST1500DL003-9VT16L > Seagate Barracuda Green ST1500DL003 1.5TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
ST2000DL003-9VT166 > Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003 2TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
 

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:dinesh:Hi,i hope i can help you.I’m assuming D is just a data partition and doesn’t contain the page file, boot files or a second operating system. If so, merge the partitions by removing D and extending C, as follows:

1. Back up to an external device any important data on D and, optionally, move the same important data from D to C.
2. Right-click Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management, then right-click the graphic of the D partition and select Delete. The partition returns to Unallocated for a Primary Partition or Free Space if it‘s a Logical Drive within an Extended Partition. Delete the partition if it is an Extended partition.
3. Now right-click the graphic of the C partition and select Extend.

If you think this is a little complicated,you can use a third-party sowftare like Aomei Partition Assistant to do this ,but you still have to make a full backup.

 

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As far as I know If it was just one drive there would only be a Drive 0 in disk management, split or not. Drive 0 and Drive 1 in disk management denote physical disk drives. Both of your screen shots show two hard drives. What does the BIOS show?

yeah i never seen this before, split or not always was the same thing until now.
It is still just one single HD i dont know what happened to it. and the bios shows it as 2 drives too.
Could it be because i used various dual-boot OS's ? i used my D drive for few dual boots past this and last year.

This harddrive is split into
ST1500DL003-9VT16L
ST2000DL003-9VT166

Open up your case and have a look inside. I think you'll find two hard drives, not just one. Those are hardware ID's for the drives.
ST1500DL003-9VT16L > Seagate Barracuda Green ST1500DL003 1.5TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
ST2000DL003-9VT166 > Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003 2TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

well i can say you were right. ive opened the thing again, and found the HD's on top of eachother looking like its only 1. thank you for your help :)
 

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:thumb: No problem. Now you know what you have to work with and can go on from there. If it was me I'd back up all my data to external media and start over, wiping both drives.
 

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:thumb: No problem. Now you know what you have to work with and can go on from there. If it was me I'd back up all my data to external media and start over, wiping both drives.


yeah already did that, my 1.5 tb drive was totally dead. i reinstalled windows at my 2tb drive temporary until i get my SSD.
thanks again :)
 

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:thumb: No problem. Now you know what you have to work with and can go on from there. If it was me I'd back up all my data to external media and start over, wiping both drives.


yeah already did that, my 1.5 tb drive was totally dead. i reinstalled windows at my 2tb drive temporary until i get my SSD.
thanks again :)

That will work. :thumb:
 

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@alphanumeric Good support. I tried to Rep you but got the "Spread Around" msg. :)
 

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Thanks Miles, I've gotten that message from time to time too. For me its likely because I don't rep enough and end up repping the same people. To be honest its not something I pay much attention too.
 

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