Windows 10: Use spanned volumes for boot volume - extend C: onto 2nd hard drive

I recently purchased an HP all in one computer, which was advertised as a 1 TB hard drive, but in reality has a 128GB SSD C:\ drive and a 960 GB D:\ hard drive.

I would like to be able to reconfigure the system so that the 128 GB and 960 GB drives are spanned, and have the C: drive have the full 1TB of space. Having to manage installing software, or data onto two drives is inconvenient.

I tried to convert the disks to dynamic disks, and span the C:\ volume, but that does not seem to be supported.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? I am ok with reinstalling the OS if required, and upgrading to windows 10.

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OS (C Drive - Extending the Volume

I've recently purchased a new laptop and came across a problem regarding the storage volume. It seems there's an arbitrary partition where C: drive has 100GB allocated and the remaining 900GB+ is unallocated. When I tried to extend the volume of C: to include
the 900GB, the option to extend the volume was grayed out and unusable.

Unfortunately, I just don't know enough to figure out why all that space is unallocated and why I can't extend the volume of the C: drive. Searching for the answer yielded a lot of suggestions for third-party software, but I'd like to avoid that solution
if possible. Are there any other options?

 

Extending volume problems

Looks like you'll need to go dynamic.

 

Can't Extend Volume of hard drive.

Hello,

I have formatted and deleted a partition on my hard drive resulting in unallocated space. I wish to extend the hard drive C: volume into the unallocated space, but can't as this option is greyed out in disk management. How can I achieve extending the hard
drive C: volume? I'm on Windows 10 64-bits.

Thanks in advance

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