Hard Drive repartitioning ASUS G73JH-B1

Hello everyone my B1 g73jh just came in today, it has 2 500gb hard drives but they are split up into 5 different drives... How can I set it up so they are just the original 2 drives without having to reformat?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

 

Thats the thumbnail of how the computers hard drives came... I said 5 partitions earlier, but it seems like there are only 4 partitions and about 19.53gb's of unallocated space, wonder why they did that.

Any info how to set it back to just the 2 original drives would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

 

hmm okay I Just used the tool itself to delete the partition and extend them over.... Seems like the only problem I have it that 19.53gb's I can either create it into a new partition or leave it unallocated, seems like it wont let me integrate it to the main drive, anyone know why?

 

I believe the 19.53GB volume is the hidden partition that the ASUS AI Recovery program uses when you create backup DVDs.
Only delete it if you have already made your backup DVDs or you don't care about Backup for the original factory condition of your HDD.

 

The 19.53G are not really unallocated. That's where the stuff needed to restore your computer to the original state is kept.

If you don't care about that functionality and you have made your restore DVD's or taken other similar precautions so you can get back on your feet without RMA, you can safely delete or reuse. If It does't let you integrate, try delete, then reuse. Or just reformat.

Again, make sure you have some way to get your computer back on it's feet before you do this. Once that partition is gone, you will not be able to use F9 to restore to factory state.

I haven't tried, so I don't know exactly what to tell you, I'd assume you can delete, allocate, format, etc using the normal tools, but perhaps someone can confirm.

 

Warwyrm beat me to it...shouldn't spell check...

 

tried deleting it, doesn't work, seems the only way is a reformat... =/

Edit: I mean deleting works, but it wont let me extend the primary C partition over it... only choice is to leave it unallocated or to create a separate hard drive with it.