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unalocated disk space after install.
So I installed 7RC as main OS.
But i had to delete Vista and 7Beta whitch I had in a small partition, now that partition shows as unallocated.
How can I make it be part of the C drive again?
So I installed 7RC as main OS.
But i had to delete Vista and 7Beta whitch I had in a small partition, now that partition shows as unallocated.
How can I make it be part of the C drive again?
Depends where the unallocated space is - is it on the Left in the Disk Management window?
If you post a screenshot of Disk Management, it would help.
Is it the whole of that drive? Theres no other partitions, just that one?
If so then select that partition in the windows 7 installer and the installer will set up the partition and format it for you.
You need a 3rd party partitioner to move the unallocated space to the left of the Recovery partition before including it in C.
Normally, I wouldn't suggest doing that as it might make it difficult to access the recovery partition in the normal way - if you ever need to.
Was the recovery partition always where it is now?
See i cant extend the C volume, cus the recovery is on the way...
And yes... the partition that is unallocated was created by me....before there was just C: and the recovery, but I made the partition to install 7 beta. =(
If you are desperate to incorporate that unallocated space - first move it to the right of C i.e. to the left of the recovery partition- you could use either of these two bootable apps:
The one linked near the top of this tutorial:
Dual Boot using free partitioning software - Vista Forums
OR Gparted SourceForge.net: GParted: Files
Then use 7 Disk Management to extend C to incorporate the unallocated space.
Last edited by SIW2; 08 May 2009 at 23:12. Reason: meant to the right of C and left of recovery - corrected.