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Posted April 24th, 2021 09:00
It's normal for the bootable C-Drive (usually M.2/NVMe-SSD now-days) to show-up as Drive-1 (and the SATA HDD/SSD as Drive-0) ...
but I wonder why C-Drive/Drive-1 is showing as Dynamic instead of Basic? I didn't know Dell was shipping systems pre-configured in that way.
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Posted April 24th, 2021 11:00
The easiest would be to right click on the disk 0 unallocated space, and format it using the windows default selections.
Since you already know how to open disk manager that would be the easiest solution.
Just make sure to click on the correct disk and volume before you hit format.
Why your C drive is allocated as a dynamic disk I am not sure. That is unusual. You could create a spanned volume using your second disk 0, but I would not recommend it and instead stick with the default single disk configuration.
Dynamic disk structures never really took off for home users, and they can be a nightmare to recover if anything goes wrong.
If you want to know more about dynamic disks: Dynamic disks
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Posted April 23rd, 2021 19:00
Right click the unallocated space in disk management where shown in your photo and create a new volume/partition. Follow the prompts.