01-02-2009, 12:29
|
#1
|
|
Guest
Location: Near Hungerford, West Berkshire
Services: TV: Sky HD, Landline: BT,
Mobile: Orange, Internet: Quite Slow!
Posts: n/a
|
Disk Partiton
Hi all,
I've just rebuilt a laptop using the hidden recovery partiton.
For some reason (after the rebuild and in Windows) I can see a 1.56GB partiton. It wasn't there before the rebuild so I can anly think it was a created by the recovery software.
Can I add this space back into the C: paration?
It's currently set to "Unallocated" and all I can do to it is create a simple volume. When I click on the C: partiton I only have an option to shrink the partition - not expand...
Any ideas?
Cheers
Lee
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 12:35
|
#2
|
|
Eva Longoria Fan
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Essex
Age: 37
Services: Sky multiroom (Sky Q)
Sky Fibre Unlimited
Sky Landline
Posts: 8,851
|
Re: Disk Partiton
Does it say that its Healthy EISA Configuration?
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 12:43
|
#3
|
|
Guest
Location: Near Hungerford, West Berkshire
Services: TV: Sky HD, Landline: BT,
Mobile: Orange, Internet: Quite Slow!
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Disk Partiton
You mean under Disk Management? Yep - disk C: is "Healthy"
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 12:58
|
#4
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Kairdiff-by-the-sea
Age: 69
Services: TVXL BBXL Superhub 2ac (wired) 1Tb Tivo
Posts: 10,324
|
Re: Disk Partiton
The partition software from Windoze is rubbish... try another free one like EASUS....
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 13:22
|
#5
|
|
Guest
Location: Near Hungerford, West Berkshire
Services: TV: Sky HD, Landline: BT,
Mobile: Orange, Internet: Quite Slow!
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Disk Partiton
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taf
|
Thanks - nope! Would not allow me to resize the C: partition to include the unallocated space...
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 13:46
|
#6
|
|
step on my trip
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 3,764
|
Re: Disk Partiton
'parted magic' is very good. I use it at work (and home occassionally). http://partedmagic.com/
__________________
“Most people don’t listen to understand. They listen to reply. Be different.”
- Jefferson Fisher
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 14:05
|
#7
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Mansfield
Age: 59
Services: There is no destination to life, the journey is everything!
Posts: 5,532
|
Re: Disk Partiton
Quote:
Originally Posted by LSainsbury
Thanks - nope! Would not allow me to resize the C: partition to include the unallocated space...
|
You'll need to allocate the space (create partition) and then format the partition then merge the 1.5gb partition into C:\ so it becomes a part of C:\.
You wont be able to merge unallocated space into allocated space.
I always used to use partition magic for XP (dont work in vista, well V8 dont) found EASUS yesterday and it works great. So another vote for EASUS 
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 14:40
|
#8
|
|
Dr Pepper Addict
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Nottingham
Age: 63
Services: IDNet FTTP (1000M), Sky Q TV, Sky Mobile, Flextel SIP
Posts: 30,128
|
Re: Disk Partiton
I use Partition Magic (I dont have Vista).
__________________
 Baby, I was born this way.
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 15:27
|
#9
|
|
Guest
Location: Near Hungerford, West Berkshire
Services: TV: Sky HD, Landline: BT,
Mobile: Orange, Internet: Quite Slow!
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Disk Partiton
Quote:
Originally Posted by alferret
You'll need to allocate the space (create partition) and then format the partition then merge the 1.5gb partition into C:\ so it becomes a part of C:\.
You wont be able to merge unallocated space into allocated space.
I always used to use partition magic for XP (dont work in vista, well V8 dont) found EASUS yesterday and it works great. So another vote for EASUS |
OK - created the new partition - can't se how to merge it though...
I'm wondering if it's not possible becuase the C: is the system partition?
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 15:38
|
#10
|
|
cf.addict
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Glasgow
Age: 42
Posts: 138
|
Re: Disk Partiton
Quote:
Originally Posted by LSainsbury
OK - created the new partition - can't se how to merge it though...
I'm wondering if it's not possible becuase the C: is the system partition?
|
I don't think you can alter the system partition while it's in use.
If I remember correctly you'll need to use a live-cd like gparted.
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 15:58
|
#11
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Mansfield
Age: 59
Services: There is no destination to life, the journey is everything!
Posts: 5,532
|
Re: Disk Partiton
IIRC (not 100% sure about EASUS) but with Partition magic you merge new partition into C:\ and click apply. Then on reboot it will run the batch file to merge the 2 partitions.
Looking at EASUS it seems that merge function is missing. Or I'm missing something 
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 16:12
|
#12
|
|
Guest
Location: Near Hungerford, West Berkshire
Services: TV: Sky HD, Landline: BT,
Mobile: Orange, Internet: Quite Slow!
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Disk Partiton
Oh well - I'll just have to miss 1.5GB of disk space - or I'll just use as it is...
|
|
|
|
|
01-02-2009, 18:40
|
#13
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: There's no place like 127.0.0.1
Services: Depends on the person and the price they're offering
Posts: 12,384
|
Re: Disk Partiton
format as NTFS, then use Truecrypt to turn it into an encrypted vault 
That way you don't lose the vault (and contents) when you reinstall next and you've always got a little vault handy for those files that need safe storage
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 03:04.
|
Join CF
You are here: 
