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Hard Drive Management Gone Haywire
Hello,
Yesterday, I decided to get rid of the 199MB System Reserved partition in my hard drive setup. I had the 199MB partition at the front, then a 150GB data/system partition, then the rest was unallocated space.
Using MiniTools partition manager software, I deleted the 199MB System Reserved partition (and yes, I re-made the BCD and the MBR), extended the data/system partition to the left to occupy that 199MB, and shrunk the 199MB from the right of the data/system partition, because I wanted to keep it at 150GB. This was all done at a boot-time operation.
When I booted up the computer, looked in the Disk Management, it said that the disk was only 150GB in size. There was only that one partition, and it didn't show the unallocated space.
I messed with it for a while, but when I went into Diskpart and attempted to create a primary partition, it said that there was NO space at all.
Using EaseUS partition manager software (I uninstalled MiniTools because I didn't like the UI), I created a new partition with the unallocated space. It always gave me an error "Updating system information failed", and when I wanted to do anything in Windows' Disk Management, it would give me an error that the information was up-to-date, and refreshing didn't work, so I had to restart. When I restarted, it looked like this [attachment 1]. The unallocated space, approximately 400GB, is no-where to be seen. It actually looks like this [attachment 2].
How can I fix this?
Thanks! :) Sorry for the long post :P
Last edited by Brink; 05 Jul 2017 at 21:46. Reason: restored