Solved Partition REALLY Won't Show Up
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I know what the picture says but do you think that there is space missing? If so how large is it suppose to be? Now since there is a difference in the way that operating systems and hard drive manufacturers define a gb the actual usable space will be less than the advertised size but it shouldn't be very far off. My guess is that you have a 320 gb hard drive (according to the manufacturer's specs) and only 297 is usable.
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I went into disk manager earlier and tried to shrink the space to make a partition and it said I had room to shrink but that failed. I believe I basically have a partition that is missing. If I'm not mistaken. That is probably correct. I'm not sure because the computer was custom built.
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The drive is 320. When formatted, the size is 297. Of the 297, about 147 is free and unused.
Nothing is missing.
You need to right click C and go to the partition menu in PW and change the "unallocated space after" dropdown to the size you want to shrink C by.
Try 50000. That's 50 GB.
Look at "option 3" in the link in post 12. It should give you some major clues in how to shrink C.
Nothing is missing.
You need to right click C and go to the partition menu in PW and change the "unallocated space after" dropdown to the size you want to shrink C by.
Try 50000. That's 50 GB.
Look at "option 3" in the link in post 12. It should give you some major clues in how to shrink C.
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Looks like you created a 53.71 GB partition, with E as a drive letter.
But it's shown as "logical" rather than primary.
I'm not sure if logical is OK for what you want to do with that partition. It may be.
I'd probably see if I could convert it to "primary" in PW.
Do NOT NOT NOT use "dynamic disks".
Then reboot and look at it in Disk Management.
But it's shown as "logical" rather than primary.
I'm not sure if logical is OK for what you want to do with that partition. It may be.
I'd probably see if I could convert it to "primary" in PW.
Do NOT NOT NOT use "dynamic disks".
Then reboot and look at it in Disk Management.
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I don't think you can make it primary in Windows.
You would need to do that in PW.
I'd probably delete E entirely and then recreate it again, choosing primary if given a choice.
Or maybe convert it from logical to primary in PW.
Either should work.
Did you deliberately choose "logical" when you made E?
Post a pic of Disk Management.
You would need to do that in PW.
I'd probably delete E entirely and then recreate it again, choosing primary if given a choice.
Or maybe convert it from logical to primary in PW.
Either should work.
Did you deliberately choose "logical" when you made E?
Post a pic of Disk Management.
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Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bitIntel Skylake i5-6600K, not overclocked8 GB HyperX DDR4-2666 (2 x 4 GB)none; graphics are integrated on CPU
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- Ignatz Special; 4 speed manual gearbox; factory air conditioning; one of one
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
- CPU
- Intel Skylake i5-6600K, not overclocked
- Motherboard
- AsRock Z170M Extreme 4, micro ATX
- Memory
- 8 GB HyperX DDR4-2666 (2 x 4 GB)
- Graphics Card(s)
- none; graphics are integrated on CPU
- Sound Card
- onboard: Realtek ALC1150; external: USB Behringer UF0-202
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell S2340M 23 inch IPS
- Screen Resolution
- 1600 x 900
- Hard Drives
- System: Crucial MX100 series SSD, 128 GB;
Data: Samsung Spinpoint 103SJ, 1 TB;
Backup: WD Caviar Green WD30EZRX-00D8PB0, 3 TB
- PSU
- Rosewill SilentNight 500 watt fanless, semi-modular
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- Antec Solo II
- Cooling
- Noctua NH-U12S; Noctua F12 intake, Noctua S12A exhaust
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- Microsoft 200 6JH-00001 USB
- Mouse
- Dell or Microsoft optical wired; USB
- Antivirus
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- Pale Moon
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- All fans PWM; speeds at idle: CPU circa 500 rpm; intake circa 600 rpm; exhaust circa 600 rpm; CPU temps 27 idle and 47 C load in a warm room (27 C/81 F) when running Intel Extreme Tuning Utility stress test.
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That utility built into disk manager is very limited in functionality. It either can't or won't move certain files hence the limitation on how much the partition can be changed by. Part of the problem is that the system can be changed in only certain ways while the operating system is running hence the reason for the tool's failure. Tools like partition wizard don't have those limitations because they run outside the confines of the operating system.
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- HP Pavillion Elite HPE-250f
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- WD blue 1 tb & 500 gb.
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- 8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
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- Viewsonic
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- 1680x1050
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- 1 TB & 750 GB