why is my harddrive partitioned?

i have the 7811fx, and until now, i was always under the impression that i had two harddrives, beause that was what it showed up as in my compter. Then i noticed that i in fact had only one harddrive. Why is it partitioned? i suppose it doesn't really matter, but it's just kinda a pain to have two seperate harddrives instead of one...is there any way to merge them without formatting them?

 

You can use Arconis TrueImage to merge your partitions together.

Some of the benefits for having multiple partitions on a hard drive include:
Protecting or isolating files, to make it easier to recover a corrupted file system or operating system installation
Raising overall computer performance on systems where smaller file systems are more efficient.
Use of multi booting setups, which allow users to have more than one operating system on a single computer.

Source from wiki

 

you can also delete partions by simply reinstalling the OS.

 

Gateway got bored so they partitioned. jk jk
you should be able to delete it in disk management then extend the OS partition to the full size.

 

This is what i did... VERY EASY

 

yeah, but is there any way that i can merge them without deleting it?

 

is partition 1 full? if not just copy everything over. and then delete 2 and increase the size of 1.

no OS changes are made. jus partition sizes