Reset Hard Drive

[CorneliusWin7]

Hey guys,

I am frustrated. I wanted to dual-boot Windows 10 on my Windows 7 Home Premium laptop and shrinked my disk by about 100GB. I went on to create a new volume, as you can see in the screenshot below. I actually re-installed Windows 7 and succesfully managed to do so, but now when I boot the Windows 10 installer I get to the "select volume" part and the only option I can choose is my Windows 7 volume (Windows II in the screenshot). For every other volume all the options like formatting, deleting and creating a new one are greyed out. Trying to install on unallocated space also does not work.

Now I have almost given up, I have got almost no space left on my active volume and can not increase it, nor can I install a new operating system because it doesn't work any of the virtual volumes.

What I would like to do now is to either be able to extend my active volume or to reset the whole harddrive and to re-install Windows all over again.

Please help me sevenforums!

 

[whs]

Well, for starters your disk is dynamic - no good. If you want that many primary partitions, initialize it in GPT.

 

[CorneliusWin7]

Well, would you mind explaining how to do that? I googled it quickly but all that seems to be way too difficult for me.
Also, I only actually want one partition, I more or less accidentaly created the other two

 

[Dude]

Hello CorneliusWin7, welcome to the forums. Have a read through these two tutorials

:ar: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2108-windows-10-dual-boot-windows-7-windows-8-a.html

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2674-partition-volume-create-new.html

 

[Boozad]

Well, would you mind explaining how to do that? I googled it quickly but all that seems to be way too difficult for me.
Also, I only actually want one partition, I more or less accidentaly created the other two

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2668-partition-volume-delete.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2670-partition-volume-extend.html