Partition or Volume - Extend

Brink said:

Gloteron,

You most likely could fix this by running the clean command in a command prompt at boot like in the tutorial below, but this would wipe everything out on your HDD and mean a clean reinstall of Windows 7 as well. If you want to do this, then after you run the clean command, it will leave the HDD as unallocated space. From here, you would boot from your Windows 7 installation disc to select and install Windows 7 to the unallocated space. Windows 7 would then format the HDD and start installing.

Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

Be sure that you backup anything that you do not want to lose to a separate location first.

I assumed that installing from scratch would fix it but I don't want to do it right now, so I guess I will stick with the current situation if no other solution is found.

Thx again,

Hopefullly someone may know of another way that will not involve wiping the drive. Unfortunately using the Clean command is the only way that I know of that will restore a HDD like this. It's just to bad the command wipes the HDD clear to do it.

It's not going to hurt anything to run as you are until you are for now other than not having all of your available HDD space. I would recommend to keep a backup of anything that you do not want to lose at a diferent location than this HDD until you get it sorted just to be safe though.

Hello Paul, and welcome to Seven Forums.

When a partition or disk has been deleted, it shows as unallocted. Your 32.5 GB unallocated partition has already been deleted and is just blank unallocated space now. If you like, you could use the tutorial on the first page of this thread to extend the C: partition into all of the 32.5 GB unallocated partition to have all of it added back to the C: partition. :)

I would strongly recommend to NOT delete the "HP Backup & Recovery Manager Installer" file. This is what is used to be able to install Windows 7 back to factory conditions on your computer.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Paul,

That would work, but unless you are just real tight on HDD space, I would recommend to still keep the "HP Backup & Recovery Manager Installer" file to have as another option to reinstall Windows 7 with incase a image fails and not able to be restored for whatever reason.

I am running windows 7 utimate x32 on a macbook pro. I also have a osx partition. I have 30 gb of unallocated space, yet nothing seems to work. What should I do? I really want to extend my storge for windows on to the unallocated space.

Connor190 said:

I am running windows 7 utimate x32 on a macbook pro. I also have a osx partition. I have 30 gb of unallocated space, yet nothing seems to work. What should I do? I really want to extend my storge for windows on to the unallocated space.

Please post a full picture of Disk Management, then we'll see.