Partition or Volume - Shrink

A few days ago, I accidentally used the clean all command to my main hdd...
Luckily, I have back up the data the days before.. I have followed shawn's tutorial, so I think I might as well give this a try since I already clean my hdd

The problem is when I use the "list disk" command, my hdd is there, but when I type "list vol" command, my hard drive doesn't show up..

I thought that there was sth wrong with my laptop, so I tried this guide with my USB flash drive. I tried clean my USB, shrink it, and create the partition the same way that this guide does, AND it works..

I wonder why it doesn't work for my hdd?

Xylonez said:

A few days ago, I accidentally used the clean all command to my main hdd...
Luckily, I have back up the data the days before.. I have followed shawn's tutorial, so I think I might as well give this a try since I already clean my hdd

The problem is when I use the "list disk" command, my hdd is there, but when I type "list vol" command, my hard drive doesn't show up..

I thought that there was sth wrong with my laptop, so I tried this guide with my USB flash drive. I tried clean my USB, shrink it, and create the partition the same way that this guide does, AND it works..

I wonder why it doesn't work for my hdd?

As have used Clean All, you have no partitions or Volumes on the HD.
You now need to use this tutorial:
Partition or Volume - Create New

theog said:

Xylonez said:

A few days ago, I accidentally used the clean all command to my main hdd...
Luckily, I have back up the data the days before.. I have followed shawn's tutorial, so I think I might as well give this a try since I already clean my hdd

The problem is when I use the "list disk" command, my hdd is there, but when I type "list vol" command, my hard drive doesn't show up..

I thought that there was sth wrong with my laptop, so I tried this guide with my USB flash drive. I tried clean my USB, shrink it, and create the partition the same way that this guide does, AND it works..

I wonder why it doesn't work for my hdd?

As have used Clean All, you have no partitions or Volumes on the HD.
You now need to use this tutorial:
Partition or Volume - Create New

Ah, so you mean that I dont have to do the shrink blablabla if I used clean all? Thx for the quick reply theog.. I will try it now...

Thx theog, it works like a charm... Now I have another question.. How do you create another partition when installing the windows? For example I have 465 gb hdd and I want to use 100gb for my boot hdd, and the rest for data hdd?

Xylonez said:

Thx theog, it works like a charm... Now I have another question.. How do you create another partition when installing the windows? For example I have 465 gb hdd and I want to use 100gb for my boot hdd, and the rest for data hdd?

Take a look this tutorial, will show you how to from Windows install & Command line.
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Hi. I want to shrink my HDD so that i can backup some files before formatting my PC, will this work? and after i format my PC will i be able to extend the HDD that i shrinked again :) Thank You.

Here you go :)

P.S that System (E) HDD got created while i was formatting (re installing Windows) :)

Brink,

Ok, Thank You very much. You're Great! :)