Re: Extending Volume - Force Deletion Warning

What is on the D drive?
If you have media center it may be in use by media center or it may be the recovery partition.

 

Re: Extending Volume - Force Deletion Warning

I apologize - I'm not completely sure what you mean by "media center". I do have a couple of media applications that reside in a folder on the D drive, if that is what you mean.

There is a partition that is labeled "Recovery", but it is not my D drive. My D drive just shows as NTFS , Healthy (Logical Drive)

 

Re: Extending Volume - Force Deletion Warning

go to disk management, take a screen shoot using the snipping tool and post it so we can see exactly what you have and how the drives are setup.

 

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Picture attached.

 

Re: Extending Volume - Force Deletion Warning

Media as in Windows Media enter or Dell offers one also, you have neither

From the looks of it there must be a back ground program running that is installed on the D drive it could be as simple as Adobe update or anything else that was installed on D and runs in the start up process.
The unexpected errors would be the program no longer runs.

 

Re: Extending Volume - Force Deletion Warning

I deleted the volume and now the space shows are Free Space - not Unallocated Space. :question: So I don't have the option to extend the C Volume. I started to delete the partition for the Free Space, but now I get the message:

This is an extended partition. The partition will become inaccessible if you delete it. Are you sure you want to delete this partition?
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Again, what I want to do is create unallocated space to the right of my C partition, so that I can extend the C partition a little and then create a new smaller D partition.

Is deleting the partition that says "Free space" the correct action?

 

Re: Extending Volume - Force Deletion Warning

Delete the partition and then extend the C: if you have any problems in Disk management doing that use Free Partition Wizard to do it

 

Re: Extending Volume - Force Deletion Warning

Yep - I went ahead and bit the bullet and deleted the "Free space" partition and it became "unallocated". The scary messages MS gives at each juncture just intimidated me a little.

For the benefit of any readers-

I then right-clicked on my C drive (which was to the immediate left of the unallocated space, and clicked "extend volume". The "available" field was empty because Disk Management had already selected the only disk option I had and moved disk0 into the field on the right.

All I had to do then was select how much out of the available disk space I wanted to use - in my case 10240 MB (10 GB) of the 234496 MB available, as I wanted to retain some space to create a new D partition for data. I completed the wizard and then right-clicked the (now-reduced) unallocated space and created a new simple volume to store my data.

Thanks for your help.

 

simple once you gotten over the fear of possibly messing everything up. glad it is taken care of and thanks for letting us know.

 

Would anyone be so kind as to offer some of the same advice how to format my C drive? Also I should say i backed everything up on C, files and such, and I don't care about F....Should I delete F and then format C?
Here is a screen shot:

 

@tszeusts Please do not hijack someone else's thread, especially a Solved one. You should start your own Thread.
The C: drive letter is assigned usually to the Operating System. You cannot Delete an Operating System partition that you are booted into. If you have more then one OS on your computer, you can boot into that. The Disk 2 C: drive will then have a different drive letter, and you can delete it.
Or if you want to reinstall the Windows OS to that drive, then Boot off of a Windows Disc and Delete the Disk2 Partitions go next to install Windows