Disk Partitions Help

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so here's my problem, i used to have a Disk 0(this is where C: was) and a Disk 1(my Drive D:) but since i installed win7 my two drives (C and D) were merged into just Disk 0.

what i want to do is get the Disk 1 label or volume (i dunno what that is called) back.

heres a screenie of what my new HD looks like

screen3.jpg


please help
 

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Acer Aspire 4920G
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Windows 7 Professional
This is the screen shot from your previous thread about a similar problem,

screen2.jpg


The problem is that according to that you only have one hard drive with four partitions, there is no second drive showing.

Start with going into the bios and making sure that the second drive is being detected there, and also make sure that both the power and data cable (either IDE or SATA) are connected firmly to the drive.
 

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need help partitioning....

can someone pls help me out...my C drive there is 382 GB of free space from a total of 452 GB and i want to shrink it to 80 GB but when i do it from computer management as shown it only is allowing me to only shrink down to 216 GB not any lesser
 

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HP G62-144 DX (Notebook)
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Intel Core i3 M330 @ 2.13 GHz
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4 GB DDR3 SDRAM
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15.6" HD LED
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rome said:
can someone pls help me out...my C drive there is 382 GB of free space from a total of 452 GB and i want to shrink it to 80 GB but when i do it from computer management as shown it only is allowing me to only shrink down to 216 GB not any lesser
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Please avoid double-posting.

I've already submitted an approach for you in another post.

Please check you other post.
Thanks,
 

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Toshiba Satellite S875D-S7239 laptop
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Also have an Asus ha1002xp netbook with Win 7 Ultimate installed.
sorry abt the double post i was just a bit confused as to where would be the best place to post my issue...thanx again karlsnooks for the help...
 

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HP G62-144 DX (Notebook)
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Intel Core i3 M330 @ 2.13 GHz
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4 GB DDR3 SDRAM
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15.6" HD LED
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1366x768
rome said:
can someone pls help me out...my C drive there is 382 GB of free space from a total of 452 GB and i want to shrink it to 80 GB but when i do it from computer management as shown it only is allowing me to only shrink down to 216 GB not any lesser
Click to expand...
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Assuming that you have significantly less then 80 gigs of info on drive C: the most likely cause is file fragmentation. In this situation I use Perfectdisk which does a good job of moving everything and shows a disk map so you can actually see what is preventing the partition from being shrunk.
 

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Xonar DS
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Hitachi Deskstar 1 tb
no fragmentations. i did something when i cleaned installed win7. i formatted both drives and when the OS booted up and i looked at disk management. the structure was like that. before it has a Disk 0 which contains C: and the two OEM partitions and a Disk 1 whick has D:
 

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Acer Aspire 4920G
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Windows 7 Professional
Did you do this?

Start with going into the bios and making sure that the second drive is being detected there, and also make sure that both the power and data cable (either IDE or SATA) are connected firmly to the drive.
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System One System Two

  • Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    OS
    7 X64
    CPU
    i5 8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    2x8gb 3200mhz
    Hard Drives
    various
    PSU
    pure power 11 400w cm
    Case
    Coolermaster
    Cooling
    cryorig m9i
  • Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    OS
    7x64
    CPU
    g5400
    Motherboard
    ga b365m ds3h
    Memory
    8gb ddr4 2400
    PSU
    xfx pro 450w
yes. i did those, same as before my only hard drive is detected on the bios. but i don't see the relevance because i only have one hard drive. the thing is that when i bought this laptop the structure had a disk 0 and a disk 1.
 

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Acer Aspire 4920G
OS
Windows 7 Professional
Disk 1 should only be an actual physical disk, not a logical partition. If you only have one harddisk on your computer, there should be no Disk 1, unless you have an external drive connected to your computer at that time.
 

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Windows 7
i know about assigning a letter to a drive.. and thats not my problem...

@surfasb

hmm. is that so. ok.
but how come i had a DIsk 1 when i bought my laptop and was running vista.
but if its like that sorry for the trouble.
 

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Acer Aspire 4920G
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Windows 7 Professional
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