How to unpartition D and its recovery partition and add to C using Windows 8.1 tools

I have a new Fujitsu Lifebook, Windows 8.1 with a 600gb disk and when I go into Disk management I see the following partitions in this order.
Healthy (Recovery Partition) 768 mb 100% free
Healthy (OEM Partition) 768 mb 100% free
Healthy (EFI Partition) 260 mb 100% fre
C: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash dump, primary Partition) 340 GB 88% free
Healthy (Recovery Partition) 350 mb 100% free
D: Healthy (Primary Partition) 340 GB 100% free
Disk Management does not let me free up the second recovery partition (between C: and D:) so I am not able expand C: after I free up D: because they are not contiguous. How, using Windows 8.1 tools can I safely expand C: so that it'll be 680 GB (taking
the space from D:)?

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