Windows 10: Both OS Drive & HDD storage occupy Local Disk C

This is my first PC build, I built it with some advice from a friend & I've been using it for a few years now. I used a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB as the OS drive & a HDD with 2TB for storage.

The PC itself works fine, but I've always thought the boot speeds were a bit slow, given I'm booting from an SSD, but I didn't think too much of it & just accepted it for what it was, everything has been working fine after all.


However I've been doing some more research into PC building & of delving back in to do a few upgrades. Though I have seen reports of others booting into their desktop in less than a minute using similar setups, whereas I can easily wait around 3 minutes.

After watching a few build videos online, I've noticed that the boot drive is typically Local disk C and the storage drive is a separate drive altogether. Whereas both my SSD & HDD seem to be occupying Local disk C & that has me wondering if that is causing my boot to be limited by the HDD speeds in some way?





When I go into disk management, it seems like my SSD on Disc 1 isn't being used at all & isn't initialised, though I know that the OS is installed on there, whereas Disk 0 which is my HDD seems to be taking on all the work. I've seen a video on Linus tech tips going over a similar issue, however it was his HDD that was unallocated, not his SSD boot drive.


The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMo8krAJd5Q&ab_channel=NCIXTechTips





I'm struggling to find answers for my specific problem and don't won't to risk tinkering around too much in case I mess up the whole system somewhere, so thought I would try asking here to see if anyone might know a solution to this or if this is how the setup should be?


Thanks for the help

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Storage: OS and local drive

My computer says I have 40.8 MB free of 449 MB on the local disk E: and 848 GB out of 921 GB on my OS C: drive. It seems that I have a lot of storage left on this computer so how do I use some of those 848 GB's?

 

extend c drive storage space

Hi, I'm , an Independent Advisor.

Disk Management is a Windows built-in tool that supports to increase partition size with its "Extend Volume" feature. However, the program has some limitations in increasing disk space:

- Extend Volume only works on NTFS and RAW partition. FAT32 and other file systems are not supported.

- The Extend Volume will grey out if there is no adjacent unallocated space behind the target partition.

So, the ways to increasing C drive with or without adjacent unallocated space are different. Open the Disk Management, and follow the right tutorials listed below to extend the local disk C drive on your own now:

#1. Increase C Drive Space with Adjacent Unallocated Space

Step 1. Right-click This PC/My Computer, click "Manage", select "Disk Management" under Storage.

Step 2. Locate and right-click on the local disk C drive, and choose "Extend Volume".

Step 3. Set and add more space to your system C drive and click "Next" to continue.

Step 4. Click "Finish" to complete the process.

Note that if that unallocated space on your system disk is not behind the C drive, you can't extend C drive in Disk Management.

Hope this helps. Let me know if I can help you further!

 

Storage: OS and local drive

I do not know how to switch whatever is being saved to the OS / C: drive. It just saves everything to the local Disk E: