Where did the GB's go?

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jake9364

Discussion Starter · Apr 12, 2011

I had to re-install my OS because of too many errors my daughter did to it lol.
Well after re-installing Windows 7 Ultimate edition on my DELL Inspirion 1520, I clicked on the my computer icon. To my surprise it said that there was 82GB free out of 98GB HD. Well the HD is a 150GB, so where did all the GB’s go?

After some poking around I found this out:
Partion 1 47MB Reserved.
Partion 2 97GB System
Disk 0 Unallocated 50GB extended
Disk 0 part 3 Mediadirect 2GB Logical
OK, so it looks like somehow I need to get the GB’s from Disk 0 to C drive, 50GB!

Any help/suggestions?
Thanks

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joeten

· #2 · Apr 12, 2011

Hi try the info here Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7 or Vista - How-To Geek

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Daifne

· #3 · Apr 12, 2011

Disc 0 has your C: partition on it. What you need to do is to extend Partition 2 to include the Unallocated 50GB extended. Leave Partition 1 and Part 3 alone.

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impeccable

· #4 · Apr 13, 2011

It seems that you have unallocated space..that means you need to allocate that free space to a disk..

Now, all you need to do is to create a new drive and allocate that 50GB to that drive..

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Daifne

· #5 · Apr 13, 2011

Er, that unallocated 50 GB is already on that drive/disk. It's unallocated space on the drive. The partition where the Windows install resides can be extended to use that unallocated space. You cannot make unallocated space into a disk/drive. You can make it into a partition of the disk/drive.

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jcgriff2

· #6 · Apr 13, 2011

Start w/ step #2 - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2674-partition-volume-create-new.html

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