Installed Windows 7 and I lost about 350GB hard disk space.

Hi guys,

So a few months ago I went into disk management in Windows Xp Pro and marked the HP Recovery partation as active and rebooted the laptop. It then started saying no operating system and so I downloaded Linux with a USB stick and was up and running again. I tried fixing it in there but that didn't I finally installed Windows 7 and this is the part where I noticed I lost so much hard disk space. Can someone please help me or will I need to replace this.


P.S The hard drive now has only 11.9 GB and 1.20 free space. I have also deleted some non-windows partitions but am not sure if I deleted some hard drive space to since in disk management it shows 137.04 free space... :shock::shock::shock: really weird so please help.

It would help if you would post a screenshot of your Disk Management. Use the Snipping Tool to do this. Follow this tutorial. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html Be sure and expand the columns so we can read all of the print before you do the Snip.

I updated the post

You can delete that partition and then extend your primary partition to use it up. That will reclaim the space.

Ok I undestand now thanks

Yes it worked thanks

lolfire3000 said:

Yes it worked thanks

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The above post seems as if that solved your problem. I thought you lost 350 GB of space with the installation?

Really , how can you loose 350 gigs with a 149 gig drive :sarc:

Post a final shot of disk mgt.

Great to hear it worked out OK for you, lolfire.
Bigmck, they had followed up with another post that includes a screen shot of their Disk Management display, which showed the missing space to actually be 137Gb (and didn't update the thread title).

cytherian said:

Great to hear it worked out OK for you, lolfire.
Bigmck, they had followed up with another post that includes a screen shot of their Disk Management display, which showed the missing space to actually be 137Gb (and didn't update the thread title).

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OK, Thanks.