Acer 3201xci and XP Pro logical drive?

Hi. I bought this notebook and it seems it is configured to create a "D" logical drive which cuts the storage space of drive C in half since it takes up half the space. This is not a real partition. Somehow Acer configured it to do this on startup and I dont want it! I want the whole "C" without this logical D drive. How do I get rid of it?

I tried to get rid of it in computer configuration admin options but it warned not to do it. Once I realized it was a setup thing I think I just need to know where it sets it up and then disable it.

Thanks!

 

Acer units should be using an image of the OS rather than a stand-alone/installable OS cd. Since this is how they set it up on the OS CD, you can't bypass it. I noticed in a different post you ghosted your HDD from a 4200rpm to 7200rpm drive, well you can use Ghost to just transfer a partition and then have Ghost max out the partition size. This will give you the full space on one partition.

-Vb-

 

Ok. I didnt know ghost could do that.
I only ghosted the C drive and after the ghosting I checked the new disk and it was one partition with 55gb. When I put it into the notebook there was suddenly another partition. Which made me think that something was configured to create this virtual partition on startup even though the disk wasnt really partitioned. You know?!
thanks!