Merging dynamic partitions?

I have Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52 laptop. It has Core i7 8th Gen 8750H Processor. It came with 8GB RAM/16GB Intel Optane/1TB HDD/Windows 10/NVIDIA GeForce GTX Graphics 1050 Ti 4 GB GDDR5. I have windows 10 - 64 bit version 1903.


I recently removed 16GB optane stick from my laptop and installed SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 250GB as the main C partition which has windows and installed software. I also installed same 8GB RAM of the same Hynix brand and model number that my laptop was initially equipped with. Everything is running fine.

The C partition is my Samsung SSDThe D partition is of the original HDD of my laptopThe E partition was my old C partition which had window installation and software. I used the Samsung migration tool to directly migrate the windows installation and the installed software. Now I deleted the E volume using the windows disk management. Then I extended my D partition, so now it created a dynamic volume with two partitions as seen in screenshot. How can I merge these two partition together, i.e. one of 230.39 GB and 700GB ?



These two partition of D drive show up as one in the windows explorer.




Of course I can wipe out the data from the entire D partition and then reformat it, then add my data back. Is there a shorter way? I only intend to do this since I believe that slicing a hard drive makes it comparatively slow for windows to search for files in compared to one single partition.

Okay. Thanks. I will definitely check it out and update back here. Another query is, should I actually bother to merge the two partitions of the D drive? Will I experience a speed boost?

No since a Hard Drive and RAM are not the same. Think of a hard drive as your local library and the RAM as those with the books.

Okay..Thanks everyone. Then I'll drop the idea of merging the slices of my dynamic partitions in order to get a speed boost.