Unable to Partition C Drive

[malaiselvan]

Hi,

I bought a laptop with 320 GB space in Windows 7 32 bit os. I tried to create multiple 50GB partitions. I tried to shrink the c drive an I created 3 partitions. Now the C drive is having 144GB. I am not able to partition this 144GB.

Any ideas how can i partition this?

Regards
Malai

 

[SIW2]

Please post a screenshot of the Disk Management window:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

 

[malaiselvan]

 

[whs]

You are stuck in a mess of dynamic disks. You probably kept creating partitions after you already had 4 primaries. The next step then gets you into dynamics. You should have stopped at 3 primaries and then created an extended partition under which you could have created more partitions. But that is too late. Now you have to get rid of those dynamics. Here is how: Change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk: Storage Services; Local File Systems

 

[SIW2]

It's a simple Dynamic Drive.

Partition Wizard free can do that without data loss:

How to convert dynamic disk to basic disk with Partition Wizard?

 

[malaiselvan]

Thanks for your fast reply



I changed back to the actual settings.

Can you guide me how to create 5 partitions (50GB each)

 

[malaiselvan]

Any updates... I really stuck here

 

[SIW2]

I suggest you convert it into a Basic Disk.

Partition Wizard will do it.


You can only have 4 partitions on an mbr hard drive.

You can have more than 4 volumes.

You do that by having 4 Primary partitions and one Extended partition.

You can create volumes inside the extended partition.

Like this:



If you move or resize the oem Recovery and Tools partitions, you may have trouble accesing them.

 

[malaiselvan]

Thanks for your valuable reply. I dont find any way to convert my dynamic disc to basic dist.

How can I do that? Following are the screenshots are for your reference. Its not allowing me to convert to basic.

 

[whs]

I found this post. Maybe it can help you. The referred program works in Vista, so one might assume it will work in Win7 too.

 

[SIW2]

Hi malesailvan,

That is what it should say.

It is telling you to go ahead and convert to Basic. Then after that you can perform other operations.

Click OK.

Then click Apply in the bottom left window.