Unallocated Space?

[FredeGail]

Hello Sevenforums! Your help is always appreciated.

Somewhat a little problem I noticed.
Here we go.

I was going to format my D: disk with the Windows 7 DVD, went all successful, but I noticed in the Disk Management where you were going to choose which one to install Windows 7 on or format as I was supported to- I saw 2 disks saying "Unallocated Space", just two of them. Is this some serious stuff? The disks was like on 0MB. I was thinking it could be my backups, like the images you choose for backup-ing, but the 0MB made me feel weird.

Can I put all this together to one disk? I have a feeling that the partitions are connected with the D:, eventually, the format went all fine.

Should I worry?

FredeGail

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

Frede,

Can you show me what you are seeing? I don't think I am able to visualize it properly to help you out.

It's greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[FredeGail]

Sure! Can you hang out till tomorrow? It's because I'm outside my home right now

Please! Let's keep it touch!

Thanks!

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

Sure! Can you hang out till tomorrow? It's because I'm outside my home right now

Please! Let's keep it touch!

Thanks!

You know where to find us!

 

[FredeGail]

Sure! Can you hang out till tomorrow? It's because I'm outside my home right now

Please! Let's keep it touch!

Thanks!

You know where to find us!

Haha, thanks for your kindness

 

[seavixen32]

Until we see your disk management screenie, we don't want to give you wrong information.

However, if the unallocated space is to the right of your C drive then you can either extend your C drive to take up the slack or you could create a new partition where this space is.

You can carry out both tasks from Disk Management.

 

[FredeGail]

Alright. However, you cant see these Unallocated Space in Diskmanagement. They are on the Windows 7 installation DVD when you choose to Install, format, create partitions and so on. In Disk Management, they ain't there.

Picture in-coming

 

[FredeGail]

First picture shows the Unallocated Disk (Windows DVD)

The second is my Disk Management (In-Windows)

Sorry for dead pixels!

 

[seavixen32]

First picture shows the Unallocated Disk (Windows DVD)

The second is my Disk Management (In-Windows)

Sorry for dead pixels!

Disk Management will only show two partitions because you have two partitions and two chunks of unallocated space on Disk 0.

Boot from your Windows DVD and delete the two existing partitions so that the whole drive is clean.

Next, select New to create a new partition. Windows will inform you that it needs to create a 100 MB partition for the boot record. Let it do that and it will then create another new partition for the Windows installation.

Select the new Partition 2 on Disk O and click Next. Windows should then install.

The whole drive and its size should then appear in Disk Management.

 

[FredeGail]

Thanks for your reply! Basically I'm just wondering what this is all about. I haven't created 2 partitions or anything. Should they be there? .. and most importantly, what is it?

 

[seavixen32]

Are you using a Windows DVD or a Recovery DVD supplied by your computer seller?

Looking at your current setup I would hazard a guess that Windows was installed on Disk 0 Partition 2 with the master boot record on Disk 0 Partition 1.

If you have a Windows DVD just boot from it, delete what's on the drive and re-install as I explained previously.

 

[FredeGail]

Thanks for your reply. I really don't want to install Windows, I just wanted to format D:/ as it went successful. This screen-shot as you saw earlier was taking from my Windows 7 DVD (Not recovery). Let me explain what we have on the picture below:

1. Disk 0 Unallocated Disk - Nothing in there, I don't know where it came from
2. Disk 0 Partition 1: System Reserved - Is the bootable files of course, or said with other words, the 100MB partition
3. Disk 0 Partition 2 - Is my OCZ Sdd, with Windows 7
4. Disk 0 Unallocated Disk - Nothing in there, I don't know where it came from
5. Disk 1 Partition 1 - Is my 500GB WD Harddisk - No OS, (the one I formatted)

I noticed those Unallocated Disks is Disk 0, which is the OCZ SDD.

But what are they?

 

[seavixen32]

I should have realised you were using a SSD, I can only assume what you're seeing is how Windows 7 set up the drive when the OS was installed.

I found this on Google, perhaps it may help?

"When you install Windows you'll come to a screen that gives you a choice between "Upgrade" and "Custom (advanced)" install options. If you select the "Custom (advanced)" option then the very next screen will present you with a list of drives to install on.

If the entire SSD shows as "unallocated space", then simply selecting that drive and clicking the "Next" button will cause Windows to partition the entire drive and format it as NTFS before installing.

If the SSD already has partitions and you want to delete them so you can start from scratch, then click the "Drive options (advanced)" link in that window and additional options will appear that let you delete the existing partitions.

The installer and other disk tools in Windows 7 understand SSDs and will issue the appropriate commands. But make sure that your motherboard SATA controller is in "AHCI" mode and not "IDE emulation" mode before you start the install, since the new SSD commands such as "TRIM" are only supported in AHCI mode.

Suggestion: Disconnect all of your other drives before installing Windows on the SSD. Windows creates a small "System Reserved" partition that contains recovery tools - this is the actual boot partition. If Windows can find space on some other drive it will place the reserved partition there instead of on the SSD. Most people prefer that the drive that holds the OS is the boot drive, and disconnecting the other drives will ensure this is the case."

 

[FredeGail]

Yeah, the thing is just that it's not "The Entire SDD showing as Unallocated Space".. It's just some partitions there I really didn't ask for. I had a whole clean install I believe. I really don't know if I just should ignore this, or maybe delete them. Is my SDD (DISK 0) going to format if I delete the Unallocated partitions?

 

[seavixen32]

Yeah, the thing is just that it's not "The Entire SDD showing as Unallocated Space".. It's just some partitions there I really didn't ask for. I had a whole clean install I believe. I really don't know if I just should ignore this, or maybe delete them. Is my SDD (DISK 0) going to format if I delete the Unallocated partitions?

"If the entire SSD shows as "unallocated space", then simply selecting that drive and clicking the "Next" button will cause Windows to partition the entire drive and format it as NTFS before installing."

I belive that answers your question.

 

[FredeGail]

But that link refers to that if your SSD show as it. In my case it's my partitions

Or am I wrong about something?

I forgot to mention, when I installed another Windows 7, before the one I have now, it said the same thing.

 

[FredeGail]

Oh! And one thing, I think my SDD is set as IDE in the SATA type.

 

[seavixen32]

Oh! And one thing, I think my SDD is set as IDE in the SATA type.

I think the SATA controller needs to be set to AHCI.

 

[FredeGail]

Oh! And one thing, I think my SDD is set as IDE in the SATA type.

I think the SATA controller needs to be set to AHCI.

My computer is working fine, but is there any chance for crashes etc.?

UPDATE;
I fell over this thread:
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/81167-questions-about-ahci-ssd.html

So maybe I should, I don't care if it doesn't fix it, Jonathan_King wrote that it would maybe run faster!
Do I change this in BIOS?
Do I need drivers?

 

[Zubairkalsia]

Help mePlease

I was going through my disk management and i found that under disk 0 i have system reserve which is healthy then c drive then d drive then e drive and last there is then i have a black one which says unallocated
does this mean that i can use that un allocated space and if i can how do i do it please help