Solved Partitioning My C drive

[brianstreetly]

I'm having a problem in partitioning my C: Drive any ideas and help please..

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Personally I like this for any drive but others may disagree

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/113967-ssd-alignment.html

 

[brianstreetly]

Sorry but that answer does not seem to helpful to me.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well it is only for pre installing an OS and you didn't say why or what you wanted to partition for for.

Never mind I guess someone will find you what you want.

 

[brianstreetly]

Ok a bit more information.
I Shrank the C: Drive, I then had unallocated space, using the unallocated space I tried to create a New Simple Volume The next 4 stages of the create were ok then on the 5th I got the message:

This shows that it has changed form a simple volume to a dynamic. Then the last step just gives me the info that there is not enough space to complete the task.

Any advice or help here would be greatly appreciated.

 

[theog]

You are trying to make to many partitions.

Can you post a screen shot of Disk management?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[brianstreetly]

Snip of Disk Management:

 

[brianstreetly]

Snip of Disk Management:
View attachment 271913
Sorry the first snip was an old one.

 

[whs]

There should be no problem to create a logical partition in the 206GB of unallocated space. You have only 2 primary partitions and dynamics should not be created.

 

[gregrocker]

If you converted your Recovery to Logical it shouldn't be expected to boot and is now useless. Try to generate your Recovery Disks to see if it will even do that. If not you might be able to make it run if you convert it back to Primary using Video help on how to set partition as Primary or Logical.

Why is there a 1gb partition to its right? Is that the Diagnostics tools partition, as if so it won't boot either. I'd convert it too and then try booting it. If it's not that, then I'd delete it.

If these efforts to save those as bootable partitions work and you choose to keep them both as Primary, then you'll have the maximum of four and need to convert C to Logical to make another logical partition in the space to its right.

If you've ruined those partitions and they will no longer boot then you can delete them to create any type of partition in the space and rely on Recovery Disks you hopefully made, or if reinstall is required do the superior http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164

Feel free to ask back any questions before deciding what to do.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Just a thought Brian maybe you could do something with the Partition Wizard to "manipulate" your partitions.

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.

Having said that the others are far more capable of advising you what to do and I don't know if my suggestion would fit in with what they have posted .

Re the confusion earlier that was just me jumping to the assumption that you had a new drive you were trying to partition for an OS

 

[brianstreetly]

One of the members of our church came round and did it for me.
He made the drive dynamic, Then he formatted it, then he changed it to a simple drive all done. Took him around 5 minutes.
Thank you all for the advice.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

One of the members of our church came round and did it for me.
He made the drive dynamic, Then he formatted it, then he changed it to a simple drive all done. Took him around 5 minutes.
Thank you all for the advice.

No probs Brian gad t got fixed mind you it wouldn't hurt to keep the Wizard app onboard it is really handy and not for just partitioning

 

[gregrocker]

We were trying to help you protect partitions you didn't bother to tell us you don't want any longer.

Had you told us we could have told you to just keep clicking Delete in Disk Mgmt until it was all Unallocated Space, then create new Partition(s) as you wish.

There is really no need for 3rd party partitioning software unless you need to resize a partition to the left, or do a special operation not covered by Disk Mgmt like converting a Dynamic Disk to Basic - something you never had.

 

[brianstreetly]

He has not changed any of the existing partitions. He used the unallocated space that I had made, changed that to a dynamic drive, then reformatted that space, then changed it back to a simple drive, nothing else on the drives was touched all still exists exactly as it was.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Sorry Greg I didn't mean to interfere I was just suggesting in my last post that the Wizard is a handy tool not just for partitioning