Solved Re-partitioning Hard Drive

darkf0xx

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Before I start I want to say that I am pretty decent on a PC when it comes to repairing them and dealing with problems but this one has me stumped.
I have a hard drive that I put windows 7 on, later on down the road I wanted to see how windows 8 was so I re-partitioned 500gb of it in order to do that by re-assigning that part of the drive. My question is, is there any way to rejoin that 500gb of memory to the win7 partition to make it a full hdd or do would I have to reformat completely? I know reformatting is easy but the area I am in only has like 5 mbps internet and I have about 200 games from steam on my PC, that would take forever to recover those games. Thanks for all your answers in advanced.
 

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Of course you can reclaim the space and add it to any partition on the disk. I suggest you post a picture of your disk management and tell us which part you want to add to what partition. Then we can advise you of the easiest way to accomplish that.
 

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Did you create that second "system reserved" partition of 100MB yourself? Only one such "system reserved" partition is actually needed ever, no matter how many bootable OS partitions you might have on this drive and/or any other drive. It is the one-and-only ACTIVE partition on the first boot drive in the BIOS boot sequence list in your machine that defines where "boot manager" is placed, and it is in the one on the very left of your picture. That's also where the "boot menu" would go, if you had multiple bootable OS systems to choose from. And it's also the partition marked ACTIVE, so that the BIOS can find it on the drive among multiple partitions... in order to start the boot process by launching boot manager.

Also, you posted the graphical part from the lower portion of the DISKMGMT.MSC presentation, but it's in the upper portion where the text description of each partition is shown. This has more detail that would be helpful to us, so really both upper and lower parts of the presentation need to be seen... ideally in a large or full-screen window.

Also, if you could spread the columns in the upper portion, so that all the text in each cell is visible, there's data there that really needs to be seen.

Anyway, have you decided simply to forego your Win8 experiment, and now just want to return that previously carved out space back to your primary existing C-partition where Win7 lives? Very easy... using Partition Wizard. You can install it to run under Windows, and you can also download/burn the ISO to standalone bootable CD. Very intuitive and you should be able to immediately figure its GUI and out how to use it once you install it.

Not all operations on C (e.g. resizing, merging, moving, etc.) can be completed while Windows is operating. But you can start the program, build the "queue of operations to be performed", and then push the APPLY button. This will prompt you to OK the restart of the system, when the boot-time component of Partition Wizard will then kick in to complete the operations on C before continuing on to perform the rest of the Windows boot process.

Or, you can accomplish operations on C while booted to the standalone CD All operations available while under Windows are also available while booted to this standalone CD, but you can do everything here at one time.

Given your picture, it seems you want to DELETE both of those two partitions to the right of the system C partition. Just right-click on each one in Partition Wizard, and select "delete". The GUI will redraw to show the total now unallocated space previously occupied by those two partitions.

Then right-click on the C-partition, and select "move/resize" to do it manually, or "extend" to do it even simpler, either of which will allow you to absorb the now unallocated freespace into C.

All of these consecutive operations are "queued up" by Partition Wizard, only to be applied when you finally are done and satisfied with your "script" and push the APPLY button. Otherwise, you can UNDO any operation, or cancel the whole sequence and start over or just abort the project.

When you finally do push APPLY, it will either immediately happen if you're booted to the standalone CD, or will prompt you for the re-boot if you are running under Windows and have specified some operations that affect C in a way that cannot be completed right now... and thus triggers the re-boot to complete the script. Either way, those two partitions will be vaporized as partitions and simply absorbed back into the C-partition to their left, which then will have conceptually been resized back to use up the whole drive (which is from where you originally started, from your description).

Partition Wizard is VERY highly recommended here.
 

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Is there anything on that E drive that you care about?

If not, I'd think you could delete it, delete the extended partition surrounding it, and delete that System Reserved partition that now sits between C and E.

That should give you a large contiguous block of unallocated space immediately adjacent to C.

Then you could add some or all of that unallocated space to C with Windows Disk Management or Partition Wizard. Since the unallocated space would be adjacent to C, I think Windows Disk Management would readily do the job.

You'd end up with the left hand System Reserved and C.

Let someone else confirm.
 

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Just delete the last two partitions in Disk Mgmt. The mystery second System Reserved partition has no System or Active flag so is useless and can be deleted easily. The Logical (green border) will need to be deleted twice: to Delete Volume and then Delete Partition.
Partition or Volume - Delete

Once it's all Unallocated Space then rightclick C to Extend into the space as much as you want.
Partition or Volume - Extend
 
Now that you have done your Windows 8 experiment, and combined your space back to C:, you should consider making that 3rd partition to start storing data on and possibly even disk images.

As already suggested Partition Wizard is the perfect tool.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html

With all those games installed you really should have at least 1 disk image created, you can use Windows native imaging or free Macrium Reflect, Macrium is a bit more flexible.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
 

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"have you decided simply to forego your Win8 experiment"
Yes I have, I didn't really like the way windows 8 was set up and the restraints that it seemed to have when it came to editing files, and really the way the files seemed like too much work to get to. Maybe I will try windows 9 if it looks better but I think so far windows 7 is the best since XP. I tried it out 3 times and all 3 times I didn't like it though (once in beta, once when it hit shelves, then once a few weeks ago after it has been updated and some glitches fixed). The only reason I partitioned so much space was because I was planning on using it as a main OS, I thought maybe I just needed to get used to it.

here is the full picture and I will try that program out, I went to the website and read up on it and it seemed like what I needed.
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Im leaving the 100mb section to the left in though I just don't want the 530gb and 100mb to the right partitioned anymore. Not even sure how the second 100mb got made.
 

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I used that program, merged the partition however it then made windows do a boot loop, I just inserted my usb with windows 7 and repaired it. Thanks for the advice on the program, it did what I wanted it to (merging the partitions). It eventually worked out. I don't know what happened though, it was merging them and I calculated it to take around 15 minutes in my head. I started playing a phone game then all of a sudden the computer restarted I guess it was on about 60-70% at the most. The power didn't go out and my PC doesn't randomly restart. I don't know why it did what it did. If this problem happens to anyone else though at least you know what to do.
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Figured since u guys helped me I could at least post results.
 

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I used that program, merged the partition however it then made windows do a boot loop, I just inserted my usb with windows 7 and repaired it.
I'm not clear on when this "boot loop" occurred, or exactly what you're describing. Are you saying it worked on something for a while, and then re-booted by itself, and then kept repeating... i.e. re-booting itself forever? Or is it something else?

I can understand that maybe once would Partition Magic self-initiate a reboot, during that pre-Windows stage (if you had done the C-reconfiguration while under Windows, as opposed to running from the standalone bootable CD where everything could be done at once and without needing a re-boot). But certainly no more than absolutely just once. So if you for some reason did see an "infinite re-boot loop", well that definitely should not have occurred. I have never seen that, and I've re-sized C many times on many machines.

How and when did get an opportunity to interrupt it to stop this process? And you just did a "repair" from the USB Windows installation drive to correct this? Honestly, never saw this issue myself. Anyway I'm glad you got the job done, and are now working as you had wanted.


However I'm very puzzled by that new screenshot. How do you have TWO INTERNAL HARD DRIVES?? They look identical except for the fact that the 100MB "system reserved" partition on the second drive is not marked ACTIVE, whereas the one on the first drive is. And the 2TB drive is mostly that J partition, which is only 8% free, being 92% utilized. Where did this drive come from suddenly?? And is that 100MB "system reserved" partition left over from some old other machine that you took the hard drive out of and just now added to this machine??

Did you install a second internal drive during this whole project? I have no idea what your "dark drive" J is?? I don't know whether this is related to your earlier "re-boot loop" symptom, either being a cause or result of your re-partitioning steps.

Can you explain why this latest final screenshot shows TWO hard drives?? I'm wondering if that second drive had its own ACTIVE 100MB partition on it, and when you installed it on this machine the BIOS made the new drive the first in the boot sequence???

Really, the sudden appearance of a second 2TB internal hard drive with what looks like a boot manager 100MB "system reserved" partition of its own (even if it's not now ACTIVE) is very very mysterious.

Please tell the story of what that second internal drive really is, and how it got there suddenly.
 

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It looks correct. Again all you needed to do was delete the last two partitions in Disk Mgmt, extend C. No need for a special program at all.

The 100mb on the second hard drive is too small to bother with. Is it also an OS drive? If so do you want to make it independently bootable?
 
I used that program, merged the partition however it then made windows do a boot loop, I just inserted my usb with windows 7 and repaired it.
I'm not clear on when this "boot loop" occurred, or exactly what you're describing. Are you saying it worked on something for a while, and then re-booted by itself, and then kept repeating... i.e. re-booting itself forever? Or is it something else?

I can understand that maybe once would Partition Magic self-initiate a reboot, during that pre-Windows stage (if you had done the C-reconfiguration while under Windows, as opposed to running from the standalone bootable CD where everything could be done at once and without needing a re-boot). But certainly no more than absolutely just once. So if you for some reason did see an "infinite re-boot loop", well that definitely should not have occurred. I have never seen that, and I've re-sized C many times on many machines.

How and when did get an opportunity to interrupt it to stop this process? And you just did a "repair" from the USB Windows installation drive to correct this? Honestly, never saw this issue myself. Anyway I'm glad you got the job done, and are now working as you had wanted.


However I'm very puzzled by that new screenshot. How do you have TWO INTERNAL HARD DRIVES?? They look identical except for the fact that the 100MB "system reserved" partition on the second drive is not marked ACTIVE, whereas the one on the first drive is. And the 2TB drive is mostly that J partition, which is only 8% free, being 92% utilized. Where did this drive come from suddenly?? And is that 100MB "system reserved" partition left over from some old other machine that you took the hard drive out of and just now added to this machine??

Did you install a second internal drive during this whole project? I have no idea what your "dark drive" J is?? I don't know whether this is related to your earlier "re-boot loop" symptom, either being a cause or result of your re-partitioning steps.

Can you explain why this latest final screenshot shows TWO hard drives?? I'm wondering if that second drive had its own ACTIVE 100MB partition on it, and when you installed it on this machine the BIOS made the new drive the first in the boot sequence???

Really, the sudden appearance of a second 2TB internal hard drive with what looks like a boot manager 100MB "system reserved" partition of its own (even if it's not now ACTIVE) is very very mysterious.

Please tell the story of what that second internal drive really is, and how it got there suddenly.

The second hard drive is my external hard drive(dark drive). I don't know why it started to boot loop but it would start up then do the system checks and things then get to the windows 7 orbs and I would see a quick bsod and then it would go back to the beginning. I just put in my usb flash drive with windows 7 in it and pressed F8 on boot for it to bring up the boot device manager and directed it to my flash drive. The extra 100mb partitions on both drives are confusing to me also, I never initiated them, those are windows 7's doing. 100mbs doesn't bother me though, they are hidden unless I go to drive manager, so I'm not going to even mess with them due to the boot loop from the first time.
 

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The second hard drive is my external hard drive(dark drive).The extra 100mb partitions on both drives are confusing to me also, I never initiated them, those are windows 7's doing. 100mbs doesn't bother me though, they are hidden unless I go to drive manager, so I'm not going to even mess with them due to the boot loop from the first time.
Did you maybe build your own external drive, using a hard drive formerly living in some other Win7 machine? Or did you upgrade your old 2TB hard drive in this machine for a new 2TB hard drive, and then re-purposed the old one into an external enclosure or via USB adapter for use as a backup drive?

Seems like the only possible way you could have gotten a 100MB partition would have been a previous incarnation as a Win7 system drive. I see at the moment that space is "unallocated", but in my opinion it most likely was a real "system reserved" partition at one time.

I'm still wondering about that "re-boot/BSOD loop", and the fact that this 100MB space is now unallocated. I wonder if it was the Windows Repair you did (from your USB installation drive to cure the re-boot loop) which perhaps was responsible for this 100MB space becoming "unallocated". Otherwise I honestly can't imagine how it got created at one time, but now is "unallocated".

Anyway, enough time spent thinking about this mystery. If your internal hard drive is now configured as you want, and you can once again boot normally, then it's "case closed". But honestly, I've never experienced any problem resulting from using Partition Wizard, so it's a bit embarrassing that you had any hiccup whatsoever... which thankfully you were able to recover from easily.

Mission accomplished.
 

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The second hard drive is my external hard drive(dark drive).The extra 100mb partitions on both drives are confusing to me also, I never initiated them, those are windows 7's doing. 100mbs doesn't bother me though, they are hidden unless I go to drive manager, so I'm not going to even mess with them due to the boot loop from the first time.
Did you maybe build your own external drive, using a hard drive formerly living in some other Win7 machine? Or did you upgrade your old 2TB hard drive in this machine for a new 2TB hard drive, and then re-purposed the old one into an external enclosure or via USB adapter for use as a backup drive?

Seems like the only possible way you could have gotten a 100MB partition would have been a previous incarnation as a Win7 system drive. I see at the moment that space is "unallocated", but in my opinion it most likely was a real "system reserved" partition at one time.

I'm still wondering about that "re-boot/BSOD loop", and the fact that this 100MB space is now unallocated. I wonder if it was the Windows Repair you did (from your USB installation drive to cure the re-boot loop) which perhaps was responsible for this 100MB space becoming "unallocated". Otherwise I honestly can't imagine how it got created at one time, but now is "unallocated".

Anyway, enough time spent thinking about this mystery. If your internal hard drive is now configured as you want, and you can once again boot normally, then it's "case closed". But honestly, I've never experienced any problem resulting from using Partition Wizard, so it's a bit embarrassing that you had any hiccup whatsoever... which thankfully you were able to recover from easily.

Mission accomplished.

The external hard drive is actually only 3 weeks old I bought it because my other one was getting old and I wanted a back up as well as an upgrade, thanks again for the help.
 

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If DISK1 is an external drive then it's had an OS installed upon it judging by the System REserved partition which is now deleted. This means that since the drive was not wiped it could have boot code interfering with the OS when you plug it in. If it continues to be a problem we can help you move the data off to wipe it properly of boot code with Diskpart Clean Command then repartition in Disk Mgmt.
 
If DISK1 is an external drive then it's had an OS installed upon it judging by the System REserved partition which is now deleted. This means that since the drive was not wiped it could have boot code interfering with the OS when you plug it in. If it continues to be a problem we can help you move the data off to wipe it properly of boot code with Diskpart Clean Command then repartition in Disk Mgmt.


its never had any os installed, it only started doing that after using that program to merge the partitions.
 

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It would not have an old System Reserved partition on the external if it never had an OS. Do you know how it got there? If its there then we have to assume it has bootable code, so if it interferes further the next step is to move the data off and wipe the drive of that code. This has only worked here about a thousand times before.
 
its never had any os installed, it only started doing that after using that program to merge the partitions.
That external second drive was not even shown in your first screenshot. Was the drive not plugged in at that time?? All that is shown in your earlier screenshot was your one internal hard drive DISK0, and removable disks for DISK1 (G) and DISK2 (H).

In your latest screenshot, you show DISK1 as "dark drive", and now removable G and H appear as DISK2 and DISK3. That's very different than before.

Did it always have 92% utilized and 8% free? Did you suddenly plug in your external hard drive? Was that before or after you used Partition Wizard simply to delete the rightmost partitions on what was DISK0 and "merge" that now unallocated free space on DISK0 in with the large C-partition to its left... all on DISK0. This is what resulted in the now once again single large C-partition on DISK0.

So how and when did this DISK1 "dark drive" suddenly appear?

Using Partition Wizard to do the partition changes you wanted to do is limited to one hard drive. It doesn't work across multiple drives, except if it's involved in "copying a partition" from one drive to another, etc. You wouldn't have been using this function in your "merge" or "resize" task of this thread's subject. You simply would have re-sized C on DISK0 to absorb all of its newfound free-space to its right, which was free by deleting those two unwanted partitions shown in your very first screenshot.

I still want to hear how/when this 2TB "dark drive" DISK1 suddenly appeared? It's strangely identical in size to your DISK0 internal drive, and it has the identical 100MB "system reserved" on it with the rest of the drive allocated to what appears to have been one large C-partition at one time. And yet, unlike your real C it is 92% utilized.

Can you clarify?
 

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