how to get rid of 15gb space on HD

[pacca]

When I went from 32bit vista to 64bit vista I now have 15gb of unallocated
space (partition?)to the left of my CO drive it has no data on it and letter
designation,disk management only gives me the option to create "simple
volume" for that 15gb.I would like to merge that 15gb back to my CO drive,
only have 1 hard drive.I think because the15gb is to the left(in front) it
wont let me expand the C partition.I hope I am explaining this right,any
ideas.Thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

I'm guessing that the 15GB was formerly your recovery volume from the
original installation. In order to merge this free space (there is no
partition if it is listed as unallocated), you will need to use a third
party program because it is in the wrong location. To extend an existing
volume into free space, the space must be immediately after the existing
volume, not before it as seen by disk manager (and other utilities). What
you will need to do is slide the existing volume forward into it, so that
the free space is created after the volume, then you extend the volume to
encompass it. You cannot extend forward. Disk Manager is incapable of this
slide operation, it would only be able to create a new volume from the free
space or extend the existing one once it it has been moved. Third party
tools that will work include BootIT NG from terabyteunlimited and Acronis'
Disk Director.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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[pacca]

Thanks much for your reply,I might just leave as is,I intend to install
windows 7 in Oct,do you know if I will have the option to get rid of that
15gb of unallocated space when I do a clean install of win 7.You are right
about that was the recovery volume.Thanks again

 

[Bill Daggett]

Thanks much for your reply,I might just leave as is,I intend to install
windows 7 in Oct,do you know if I will have the option to get rid of that
15gb of unallocated space when I do a clean install of win 7.You are right
about that was the recovery volume.Thanks again

Download the FREE partition manager EASEUS and just take care of it
now so that you won't have to be concerned about it again.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Download the FREE partition manager EASEUS and just take care of it
now so that you won't have to be concerned about it again.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

The free version does NOT work with 64-bit..

 

[pacca]

yeah your right ,so I downloaded EASEUS pro demo which will work on
64bit,but I am a leary to buy it I might mess things up

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

yeah your right ,so I downloaded EASEUS pro demo which will work on
64bit,but I am a leary to buy it I might mess things up

I use the 32-bit on client computers and have had no problems to date.

If the 64-bit version is as good, I would have no hesitation in buying it.
The reason I haven't already bought it is because I have Acronis Disk
Director on my production computer..

 

[pacca]

all I want to do is reclaim 15gb of unallocated space,because 15gb is in
front (to the left) of my c drive,in vista disk manager I cant merge it to
my c drive (to the right).Willl easeus be able to do that,do I have convert
to a partition & format to move it in easeus,and then delete partition,I
just my Seagate 320gb with no partitions.I just scared to screw up.Thanks

 

[Dominic Payer]

GPartEd http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ is free and will move your
partition in a boot time operation.


When installing Windows 7, always install on unpartitioned space unless
you have particular reason to allocate partitions yourself. Do not do as
for earlier versions of Windows and create a partition. Windows 7
prefers to create a 100MB system partition, which will not be allocated
a drive letter, to hold its boot files and optimise performance.

If you do not want Windows 7 to use the full disk (it creates its paging
file in the middle of the space used so without third party tools the
system partition cannot be reduced by more than about half) create a
partition of the space you want to use, then a following partition, then
delete the first partition and, with that free space selected, proceed
with the installation.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Dominic.

If you do not want Windows 7 to use the full disk (it creates its paging
file in the middle of the space used so without third party tools the
system partition cannot be reduced by more than about half)

I was not aware of this paging file behavior in Win7.

But, in that case, couldn't we use Advanced System Properties to specify NO
paging file? Then reboot and be sure the old paging file was deleted. And
then we could use Disk Management (or DiskPart) to Shrink the volume,
couldn't we?

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100

 

[Dominic Payer]

Yes, provided there is no other system file - which cannot be moved
without third party tools - limiting the shrink process.

If you want to partition a disk, it is best to think what you want to
achieve before you start.

From memory - it is some time since I last installed it - Vista does
the same with the paging file.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Dominic.

If you want to partition a disk, it is best to think what you want to
achieve before you start.

Agreed! ;<)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100