Disk Management will not create a partition in unallocated space

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  1. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1
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    Disk Management will not create a partition in unallocated space


    I cannot create partitions on any of my HDDs in Win 7, I can shrink or extend volumes. I have used Diskpart to clean Disk 0 after using Ubuntu to move all the files to an other disk
    When I boot into Ubuntu 13.04 I can create NTFS partitions in unallocated space using Gparted and am able to populate them.
    However this only shows in Win 7 as per the red arrow in the attached image and Diskpart cannot see any volume on the disk.
    The above problems appeared after I deleted WIN 8 preview and lost a dual boot Win 7 on Disk 3.
    I am quite willing to believe that I am doing something wrong at the moment, how do I get out of this problem?
    I have a Win 7 rescue disk and an image of C:


    toolman59
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  2. Posts : 1,346
    Windows 7 Professional x64
       #2

    toolman59 said:
    I cannot create partitions on any of my HDDs in Win 7, I can shrink or extend volumes. I have used Diskpart to clean Disk 0 after using Ubuntu to move all the files to an other disk
    When I boot into Ubuntu 13.04 I can create NTFS partitions in unallocated space using Gparted and am able to populate them.
    However this only shows in Win 7 as per the red arrow in the attached image and Diskpart cannot see any volume on the disk.
    The above problems appeared after I deleted WIN 8 preview and lost a dual boot Win 7 on Disk 3.
    I am quite willing to believe that I am doing something wrong at the moment, how do I get out of this problem?
    I have a Win 7 rescue disk and an image of C:


    toolman59
    For working with partitions I use MiniTool Partition Wizard, which is free and can be downloaded from;

    Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

    HTH
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  3. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Disk Management


    Tried Minitool and Easeus none seem to solve my problem.

    Thank you for the quick reply.


    toolman59
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  4. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #4

    Disks that have been dealt with in Linux are often a problem for Windows. For Disk0 I would make a complete reformat and then work from there.
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  5. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Disc Management failure


    Thanks WHS

    I get this failure every time, even when I do a Diskpart Clean and start afresh with uninitialised disk and a reboot.
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  6. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
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    Hmm, that I have never seen. Try a sfc /scannow. Then we can see whether there are any system files on the blink.
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  7. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Tried SFC nothing reported, retried Disk management, still not working.
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  8. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #8

    When I boot into Ubuntu 13.04 I can create NTFS partitions in unallocated space using Gparted and am able to populate them.
    Populate the partition from Ubuntu or from Windows ??
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  9. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1
    Thread Starter
       #9

    From Ubuntu
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  10. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #10

    I am out of ideas.

    Btw. Why did you make a seperate partition for the pagefile on the SSD. I don't think that buys you anything.
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