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Need partition help on my newly installed 5t hdd
I put a clean install of Windows 7 Professional on a brand-new 5T drive, and am now stuck with losing 607 Gb of space, due to my uninformed choices of MBR, and while installing the OS I made 2 partitions - one for the OS ~1T, and one for programs, also ~1T.
Thinking that I'd be able to make more partitions after I got the OS installed, I went on with the process to a successful conclusion. However, when I tried to make more partitions on that drive I got the message that I would lose the 607 Gb above the 2T limit.
Because the disk is MBR, and the 2T limit plus only being allowed 4 partitions, the partitioning software will only allow my to make one more partition - thus the message about losing ~607 Gb.
I have tried extending the C: partition, but for some reason I am only given the choice to shrink it because the software is showing 0 b available before or after the C: partition. No option given for extending D: since it's not up against any free space.
I'm wondering if this will work: Would I be allowed to delete partition D: and then make 2 new partitions out of the resulting 3.7 T of allocated space?
The only other choice I'm thinking of (other than deleting the OS and starting over) is questionable:
Can I safely merge C: and D: partitions without danger to the OS on C:? That should allow me to make 2 more partitions, right? unfortunately that would make the OS partition quite a bit larger than it needs to be, so I'm not in favor of it . . .
I've read all the tutorials here and other folks who've had similar trouble, but found none exactly answering what I need to do.
Thanks