Windows Vista reinstallation messed up hard drive partitions

I reinstalled Windows Vista (using the Recovery and Applications/Drivers disk) on a family member's Satellite A135-4477 laptop. However, before the reinstallation, when I went into My computer, it showed one hard drive as around 180 GB, and a smaller one (I guess its used by the system or something?). According to Google, this computer has 2 hard drives, one is 80 GB and one is 100 GB. After the reinstallation, it shows these 2 hard drives separately at roughly the sizes desribed above. I tried to use the Windows Disk Management menu (in he control panel) to combine them, but that failed. I then tried again using the command line Diskpart command, but it gave an error that it couldn't merge partitions from separate disks. So is there any way to combine them back into one volume, the way they were shown before? If not, is there a way reinstall Vista again, but tell it to install on the 100 GB drive (It's currently on the 80 GB one)

Satellite A135-S4477
After the reinstallation, it shows these 2 hard drives separately..
As the spec above shows, that model has a single physical hard drive. What you are seeing are partitions in that drive. This Toshiba article explains what they are for.
   1.46GB partition and other small partition are for the System Recovery Options and the factory softw...
I tried to use the Windows Disk Management menu (in he control panel) to combine them, but that failed. I then tried again using the command line Diskpart command, but it gave an error that it couldn't merge partitions from separate disks. So is there any way to combine them back into one volume..?
Best to leave those partitions alone to function as designed.
See the section Hard Drive Recovery Utilities, which begins on p. 55 of the User's Guide.
   Satellite A130/A135 Series User's Guide
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