What did I do wrong after merging hard drive volumes?

Question

Iron

Good afternoon, dear Toasterovchane.
Please help me in solving a question that is not clear to me.
In general, this is the story. There was a 1Tb HDD on the computer, of course I divided it into 100 Gb (for windows and programs) and the rest was for storing music, photos, videos and various kinds of files. I recently purchased a 240 Gb SSD and of course immediately installed Windows on it. During installation on the HDD, the 100Gb partition was immediately formatted. Winda got up on the SSD as a native and everything would be fine, but it began to strain me that I have 2 additional disks and I decided that I needed to combine the partitions into one. Naturally, through disk management, I "deleted the volume" on a 100Gb partition, it became black unused as it should be, on the second partition I clicked to expand the volume and merged them through the wizard. Only bad luck, they hang in the disk management as two separate disks and are highlighted in olive color and are called a simple volume (I just see this for the first time, used to merge and split volumes). although in the explorer they are listed as one disk. Tell me is this normal? If not how to fix it?

Answer 1

It is better to work with partitions through Patishn or Acronis. And Windows made you a dynamic partition, i.e. physically section two, but it works with them as with one.
Although there is such a thing as merging volumes in Acronis, I don’t advise it. Well conceived, combining volumes with data preservation, but the implementation turned out to be not so beautiful. Before merging, it is necessary to check the disks for errors (it seems that Acronis does not do this). Recently, I lost one partition during such a merger with difficulty recovering the necessary data, it's good that there weren't many of them there.
So it's better to back up everything you need, then delete the unnecessary section in the acronis and stretch the second one. And see before that how it reacts to a dynamic volume ... I won’t say anything here, I haven’t seen it))

Answer 2

Yes, it is normal.
That's the way it should be.

Answer 3

Right-click on one of them, there "Change drive letter or path." Delete the current letter and assign another one. Profit.
Then, from a small one, throw everything onto a large one, delete a small one, and expand a large one to the entire disk.
And that's all.

Answer 4

It's not clear what's bothering you? Place on D: arrived? Did the data survive? So, he did everything right.
If you are confused by the Reserved Disk - then this is the place on your SSD - 100 MB for the needs of windows.

Answer 5

you have made a united dynamic disk, some analogue of raid or lvma.
in fact, you had to delete the image of the partition and then create one big new one