Solved Disk Management Window

[Rus2]

In Disk Management I have 31.09 GB Healthy (Recovery Partition).

I need the space. How do I get red of it and add it to my C Drive?

 

[whs]

Post a picture of your disk management. Then we'll see.

 

[Rus2]

Post a picture of your disk management. Then we'll see.

I don't know how. It is in a box to the left of the box with the C Drive.

my SSD is 125 GB but I only have 88.1 GB available. I have the recvery disks so I don't need a recovery partition.

 

[Brink]

Hello Rus,

The tutorial below can help show you how to.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[whs]

We really need the picture. Your recovery partition is unusual in size and it could be active. So we have to have a look.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

Hmm, Shawn beat me, lol.

 

[Rus2]

We really need the picture. Your recovery partition is unusual in size and it could be active. So we have to have a look.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

Hmm, Shawn beat me, lol.

Couldn't fine the paper clip and I'm totally confused. There are two boxes. The one one the left shows 31.09 GB Healthy (Recovery Partition) and the one on the right shows:

TI106234WOC (C
88.15 GB NTFS
Healthy (System, Boot, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

Sorry, but it's the best I can do.

My SSD is a 124 GB.

 

[whs]

Without a picture of disk management we cannot help you. There are too many variables and we don't want to brick your system. The info you gave up to now does not really help.

But if you want to take chances, let us know. It's your responsibility then.

PS, the paper clip:

 

[Rus2]

Without a picture of disk management we cannot help you. There are too many variables and we don't want to brick your system. The info you gave up to now does not really help.

But if you want to take chances, let us know. It's your responsibility then.

PS, the paper clip:

My Disk Management screen shows the two boxes as I've best described them. OK, give me what you have and I'll decide.

 

[Golden]

Post thr requested image...its not hard.

 

[whs]

A few questions first:

1. Why is that recovery partition 31GBs. Normally they are around 10GB. How much freespace is in that partition.

2. Did you burn the recovery DVD from the recovery partition. If not, it will be difficult to reinstall the system when it crashes or has a virus.. It is not impossible, but you may have a lot of trouble.

3. Do you have an external disk to which you could make images. That could substitute for the recovery partition.

4. How much RAM do you have.

5. Did you explore other possibilities to gain space on your SSD - like deleting the hiberfile, reducing the pagefile, etc.

6. Is this a laptop or a desktop where you also have a HDD.

 

[Rus2]

Thansk to all. I now have a headache. Goodnight.

 

[AddRAM]

Open up Disk Management fully, now press the Prt Scr key on your keyboard.

Now open up paint and click on paste, now click on the icon right above paste, this will open up a small window, now click on save as, save the picture as a jpeg and save it to your desktop.

Now make a reply to your thread and use the paperclip to upload the picture you just saved to your desktop.


Ah, nevermind, go to sleep LOL

 

[Rus2]

Without a picture of disk management we cannot help you. There are too many variables and we don't want to brick your system. The info you gave up to now does not really help.

But if you want to take chances, let us know. It's your responsibility then.

PS, the paper clip:

I'll try to post a picture of my screen.

 

[whs]

1. It is good we looked because that so-called recovery partition is your active boot partition containing the bootmgr. You first have to move the bootmgr to C, else your system becomes unbootable.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/209885-bootmgr-move-c-easybcd.html

Apart from the bootmgr, this partition seems to be completely empty. Is that correct. Open it and have a look.

2. Once you moved the bootmgr, you will have to delete that partition and volume to gain unallocated space. For that it is best to use the bootable CD of Partition Wizard (the .iso is in the last item on the website). Burn that to CD and boot with that CD.

Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online

Here is a tutorial on how to go about it.

Delete Partition - Partition Wizard Help Video

3. Next you'll have to make an image of your C drive to an external disk - this is to be on the safe side. Here is how:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?ltr=I

4. Then you download the Macrium recovery .iso from my Skydrive. Burn that also to CD to have it handy in case something happens during the next step. You can also use that CD to make the image. Then you don't have to install Macrium.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=475a0a48ca6d4035&provision=1&ref=3&wa=wsignin1.0&sa=412485191#cid=475A0A48CA6D4035&id=475A0A48CA6D4035%211812

5. Now you can use the Partition Wizard CD and extend your partition. Here is how:

How to extend partition easily with partition magic ? Partition Wizard video help.

Let us know when you encounter any problems or when you are done.

 

[Rus2]

1. It is good we looked because that so-called recovery partition is your active boot partition containing the bootmgr. You first have to move the bootmgr to C, else your system becomes unbootable.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/209885-bootmgr-move-c-easybcd.html

Apart from the bootmgr, this partition seems to be completely empty. Is that correct. Open it and have a look.

2. Once you moved the bootmgr, you will have to delete that partition and volume to gain unallocated space. For that it is best to use the bootable CD of Partition Wizard (the .iso is in the last item on the website). Burn that to CD and boot with that CD.

Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online

Here is a tutorial on how to go about it.

Delete Partition - Partition Wizard Help Video

3. Next you'll have to make an image of your C drive to an external disk - this is to be on the safe side. Here is how:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?ltr=I

4. Then you download the Macrium recovery .iso from my Skydrive. Burn that also to CD to have it handy in case something happens during the next step. You can also use that CD to make the image. Then you don't have to install Macrium.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=475a0a48ca6d4035&provision=1&ref=3&wa=wsignin1.0&sa=412485191#cid=475A0A48CA6D4035&id=475A0A48CA6D4035%211812

5. Now you can use the Partition Wizard CD and extend your partition. Here is how:

How to extend partition easily with partition magic ? Partition Wizard video help.

Let us know when you encounter any problems or when you are done.

How do you know it has the boot manager?

Regarding your #3 I have a HDD cloned of my SSD and I have recovery disks also. Is that enough?

 

[whs]

The recovery partition is marked active. That means it is flagged in the MBR as bootmgr partition.

 

[Rus2]

Easy BCD is not free. Any free software out there?

 

[whs]

Sure it's free. Look at the link in the tutorial.

 

[Rus2]

The partition I want to merge into my c drive partition is marked: Active, Recovery Partition.

My c drive partition shows the boot mgr there, I think: Boot, Crash Dump, Primary Partition.

 

[whs]

I am not going to answer that. You do some more reading and find out yourself.