My DS Hard Drive partitions

I purchased my DS PC in March of last year and I am confused about the hard drive partition setup. I'm not a computer geek (wish I was) so this may be a simple problem. DS set up my 1TB Seagate drive as follows:

Disk O Basic System Reserved 350MB NTFS
Disk O (C:) 111.45GB (Boot, Crash Dump, Primary)
Disk 1 Storage (E:) 931.51GB (Page File, Primary Partition)

Disk O now has only 6% free because that us all I have used, not knowing that the drive had been partitioned in this manner.

Disk 1 is empty with 932GB Free.

Since the drives are not adjacent, I can't shrink and expand the volume between C: and E:.

Any thoughts without uninstalling and uninstalling programs?
Can I run programs if I install them in E:?
Is there a software program that will allow me to manage this (without installing bloat?)

Finally: WTF is DS thinking when they do this? They can't assume that all of their users are going to explore and figure this out on their own when the new PC arrives. A disclosure would have been appropriate. I see nothing now in the neat little notebook.

The 350 MB system reserved is not a partition created by DS. It is created by Microsoft if you run Windows 7 or 8.

http://www.howtogeek.com/192772/what-is-the-system-reserved-partition-and-can-you-delete-it/

As mentioned it seems you have 2 Drives. One of them is an SSD and one of them is a hard drive.

Start installing things on your Hard drive. DS disclosed you had two hard drives when you bought the system. they did not partition it like that at all. This is how it looks when you have TWO hard drives in your system.

Again you have TWO drives.

Yes you can use the second drive to run programs. Store files.

It works just like you other hard drive just somewhat slower.


Edited by Ariktu - 19 Feb 2015 at 5:18am