Partition an unallocated hard drive??

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  1. Posts : 54
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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    Partition an unallocated hard drive??


    I was confused with trying to partition the hard drive since last evening. Here is my computer specifications below:

    Acer Aspire M3450M-ER20P Desktop
    3.3GHz AMD FX-6100 Processor
    8GB DDR3 system memory; Expandable up to 16GB
    2TB hard disk drive
    16X DVD+/-R/RW optical drive
    Windows 7 Home Premium operating system
    AMD HD7570 Graphics with 1GB dedicated memory

    OK I type " Disk Management " in Search programs and files after click " Start" on taskbar.

    No problem to show Disk Management on the screen and right click the hard drive to shrink. To my surprise that I only had 532 MB to shrink the main hard drive with Acer (C: -- 1844.92 GB (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition -- Healthy) and two other hard drives that have partition as well. One is with System Reserved -- 100 MB (Healthy) and other is 18.00 GB Healthy (Recovery Partition).

    I want to create a partition hard drive for RAMDISK with 6 GB but I don't have enough to create a partition hard drive. Because after the shrink report that I only have 532 MB in Acer C: hard drive. Is 532 MB not enough to create to 6 GB hard drive? I think so but could be wrong.

    Your help would be appreciated how to make a partition hard drive for RAMDISK.

    Thank you,

    John
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  2. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
       #2

    Try defragging C: before the shrink operation.
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  3. Posts : 54
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I did this twice last night. So how many times do I have to defrag the hard drive before get a better number of megabytes or gigabytes? I was surprised to see that I don't have enough MB or GB in the hard drive to create a partition hard drive. Which program would be the best to defrag the hard drive? I know Disk Defragmenter takes a while to defrag but any freeware disk defragmenter would be helpful and faster to get the job done.

    John
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  4. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #4

    Possibly some screen shots would help,
    Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
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  5. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
       #5

    imcanadian said:
    I did this twice last night. So how many times do I have to defrag the hard drive before get a better number of megabytes or gigabytes? I was surprised to see that I don't have enough MB or GB in the hard drive to create a partition hard drive. Which program would be the best to defrag the hard drive? I know Disk Defragmenter takes a while to defrag but any freeware disk defragmenter would be helpful and faster to get the job done.

    John
    Look for one that shows the unmovable sectors. It's possible there's an unmovable sector near the end of the partition. That would block you from the normal shrinkage. There are ram disks that don't require a dedicated parition to store the info during shutdown. Many just write out an image file.
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  6. Posts : 54
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Anyway here is my Screen Capture Image of Disk Management with file attachment:
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Partition an unallocated hard drive??-my-disk-management.jpg  
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  7. Posts : 9,606
    Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
       #7

    You need to make the Disk Management screen snip full screen so we can see everything.
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  8. Posts : 54
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #8

    Double click the picture and you will see the whole picture then click the arrow <-- on top of the webpage back to normal.

    Smile,

    John
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  9. Posts : 4,566
    Windows 10 Pro
       #9

    We know :) He is asking you to maximize disk management window.
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  10. Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #10

    Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

    5. This step is the most important. Maximize the Disk Management window so it fills your entire screen. Resize the window components so the status and sizes of the partitions are clearly shown.

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