G751JY hard drive question

Greetings everyone,
I just picked up the Asus G751 and it is performing very well so far. I do have a few gripes but they are minor. I don't know why Asus decided to split the 256GB SSD drive in half but its kind of silly if you ask me. The C:/ drive is almost full already after I accidentally loaded Far Cry 4 onto it. There is nothing on the other half of the drive (D:/) so far. Can I just delete that volume and extend the C:/ partition to have a nice big system volume without any major hassles? I almost did this last night but I wanted to check and make sure that I'm not missing anything. Thank you all.

 

Yeah, I dont know why in this day and age they where partitioned like that.

For the primary drive (C I just downloaded and installed Easus Partition Manager, deleted D: and extended C:.

EaseUS Partition Master - Best partition manager software for Windows disk management.

 

Cool. Thanks for that. I'm not really a big fan of Windows 8 but I see that there is a pretty robust disk management program included with it. EaseUS sounds good but does anyone think the included Windows tools will work sufficiently to delete my D;/ volume and extend C:/ to take up the new free space?

 

Windows cant extend the primary partition on its own, hence why you need a third part application to do it (there are plenty of other free applications that will do the same job as Easus, but that was the one I used). Windows can handle extending / shrinking of the other partitions fine.

I'm still trying to get my head round Windows 8! The first few days I really wanted to just format and install Windows 7, but so far have resisted that.

 

At the risk of sounding like a disbeliever, I read that Win 8.1 can in fact extend the system/boot partition if the available free space is next to and on the same physical drive. Since there is only C:/ and D:/ on my SSD, it should be easy enough to delete D:/ and then extend C:/ to the newly available unallocated space. Hey it sounds reasonable but can anyone confirm this?

Update: I was feeling froggy so I jumped on this attempt to extend my C:/ partition using only Win8 disk management tools. It was easy as pie and now I have a much more useful system/boot drive with breathing room to spare!

 

Yes as you found windows has no problem doing that, I did it with windows 7 too if I remember correctly. Simple operations like that are fine but anything complicated would need a program to do it.