regarding disk partitions made in laptop
hello, i have dell studio 1558.and the od is windows7..its a 64 bit os and 500gb harddisk..I hav made a partition of 75gb and named as E and then again tried to make other partition of 40gd, but could not make and getting the error as "you cant create a new volume in this unallocated space bcoz the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions.." but that 40gb was used from the c drive..now i hav c,e and recovery drive..plz gve me any suggestion so that i can get back that 40gb again to c...
December 21st, 2010 10:11am

You only have one physical hard drive. It has already been divided into the C, E, and RECOVERY partitions. The RECOVERY partition was created by Dell and contains the original Windows OS files that are used to restore your system in case the System drive becomes corrupted. But, I digress. Your problem now is that you have reached the maximum number (three) of "Primary" partitions available on a "Basic" hard drive. You can have up to three "Primary" and one "Extended" partition per physical drive. The good news is that an Extended partition can be subdivided into a number of "Logical" drives. So, you could use the Disk Management utility to create an Extended partition and then subdivide that into multiple Logical Drives with the available free space (if that is what you want to do). But before you do that, if you are looking to simply increase the size of the C or E partition, you can "Extend" the existing partitions to make them bigger by adding space from the unallocated (unused) portion of the hard drive. You could extend E for sure because you likely have unused space adjacent to the E partition. The C partition may not be extendable because the E partition is using adjacent space. In this case, you would have to move any data off of E, delete it, extend C, and then recreate E. It's kind of a shell game if you will. Now, here's where it gets really fun... Another option is to convert the disk from Basic to Dynamic where you can create multiple "Simple" volumes. If you are going to do this by yourself, please read up on the technical skills you will need to do it right. Caution - be careful with what you are doing. You can easily end up destroying your existing file systems if you make a mistake."It's a tough life... but someone has to enjoy it!"
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December 21st, 2010 11:55pm

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