Partitioning Hard drive

[Guest]

I cannot partition my hard drive. There is plenty of space, but when I look
at 'disk management' it does not show 'unallocated'. It only displays
'Primary partition'.
When I right click on C drive, I don't get the option to click 'New
Partition'.

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Rob,

It sounds like you may be confusing "free space" with "unallocated space".
Free space is the amount of space available for use on an existing
partition, whereas unallocated space is space on the hard drive which has
not yet been partitioned.



Regards,

 

[Ron Bogart]

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I cannot partition my hard drive. There is plenty of space, but when
I look at 'disk management' it does not show 'unallocated'. It only
displays 'Primary partition'.
When I right click on C drive, I don't get the option to click 'New
Partition'.

Unless you want to start over clean, you are going to need a third party
partitioning software for this. Partition Magic is one that comes to mind.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I cannot partition my hard drive. There is plenty of space, but when I look
at 'disk management' it does not show 'unallocated'. It only displays
'Primary partition'.
When I right click on C drive, I don't get the option to click 'New
Partition'.

You cannot format the C: where Windows is booted (and probably has the
system folder) from the system running on it. It is cutting off the
tree branch you are sitting on. You have to do that as part of a fresh
installation of the system.

Other partitions, Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management,
select Disk Management and look lower right for the graphic of the
drive. You can then r-click on a partition to delete or format; and in
unallocated space to create a new partition there

 

[Tecknomage]

I cannot partition my hard drive. There is plenty of space, but when I look
at 'disk management' it does not show 'unallocated'. It only displays
'Primary partition'.
When I right click on C drive, I don't get the option to click 'New
Partition'.

1) Can you see the unallocated space in the map (right window) in
Disk Management? If not, you don't have unallocated space. The drive
was partitioned all one partition.

2) If you DO see the unallocated space in the map, you must click it
(select it) and create a partition (use "File" menu). Don't forget to
apply this change before doing anything else (again, "File" menu).
Click the space again and format it (under the "Action" menu if I
remember correctly).

3) If you are trying to repartition a drive (like paragraph #1),
highly suggest you buy Partition Magic and use its tools to do this.
That's because in Windows there is no built-in way to REpartition a
drive, you have to delete the existing partition (loosing everything)
then repartition it.


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[Jerry]

IF the drive was formatted as a FAT32 drive then get a Win 98, SE, or ME DOS
disk and use FDISK to re-partiton.