Partition Management Help: Combining Unused Partitions to the C: drive.

[BKoster98]

Hi, About a year ago I clean installed windows on my PC. At the time I got stumped at the selecting a partition part (I didn't know anything about partitions). I Just formatted the one that had the OS on it and installed it there. Now I realized that I have a ton of random partitions that are just empty. I know that windows needs recovery partitions but i have a few of them. Also for some reason there is a 'Disk 0' that is never being used and for some reason it shows up in Task Manager (always at 0% usage). I was wondering if there was a way formatting some of the partitions and combining them to the C: drive. I just don't want to format the wrong ones and thus screwing up windows or having to clean install windows again. Lastly I have to physical drives, a HDD (C: drive) that is 1TB and a SSD (D: drive) that is 24 GB. (The HDD has windows and all my files and the SSD has drivers on it).

Here is a screenshot of the Disk Management window: http://imgur.com/a/9Ny5I

Thanks

Edit 1: Just found that I can create a new simple volume with 'Disk 0' and mount it to the C: drive. Will this combine it to the C: drive and thus make it 22.37 GB larger?

Edit 2: Is there a way to move the D: drive to Disk 0 so that I can see the activity of the physical drives individually in task manager?

 

[Colif]

You are confused. Drive 0 is the SSD, Drive D is just a partition on the same drive as C

leave SSD alone, its a cache drive. its used to make you hdd seem faster. See here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/248828/how_to_setup_intel_smart_response_ssd_caching_technology.html
Guess its had a nice one year long break since you obviously didn't know it was even there or what its for.

you could delete the 20gb recovery partition and add it to D drive

To be honest, you need to backup as much as you can and fresh install onto HDD as you got way too many partitions. win 10 makes 4 but yours are all over the place.

Windows Setup will automatically create the 4 partitions below on the drive, and install Windows 10 on the primary partition.
Partition 1 - Recovery
Partition 2 - System - The EFI System partition that contains the NTLDR, HAL, Boot.txt, and other files that are needed to boot the system, such as drivers.
Partition 3 - MSR - The Microsoft Reserved (MSR) partition that reserves space on each disk drive for subsequent use by operating system software.
Partition 4 - Primary - Where Windows is to be installed to.

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

 

[BKoster98]

You are confused. Drive 0 is the SSD, Drive D is just a partition on the same drive as C

leave SSD alone, its a cache drive. its used to make you hdd seem faster. See here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/248828/how_to_setup_intel_smart_response_ssd_caching_technology.html
Guess its had a nice one year long break since you obviously didn't know it was even there or what its for.

you could delete the 20gb recovery partition and add it to D drive

To be honest, you need to backup as much as you can and fresh install onto HDD as you got way too many partitions. win 10 makes 4 but yours are all over the place.

Windows Setup will automatically create the 4 partitions below on the drive, and install Windows 10 on the primary partition.
Partition 1 - Recovery
Partition 2 - System - The EFI System partition that contains the NTLDR, HAL, Boot.txt, and other files that are needed to boot the system, such as drivers.
Partition 3 - MSR - The Microsoft Reserved (MSR) partition that reserves space on each disk drive for subsequent use by operating system software.
Partition 4 - Primary - Where Windows is to be installed to.

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

Alright, thank you very much. I will re-install windows when I have time and set up SRT.