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anandk
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Most new computers with OEM Vista pre-installs come with 4 partitions. Hard disks configured as basic disks are limited to 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition and multiple logical drives. And as such, if you try to shrink the OS partition, you may find that you cannot create a 5th partition due to this limit.
There could be two possible solutions for this issue:
1) As the disk pre-configured by OEM may have conflicts with disk management tool in Windows Vista, you should try some 3rd party tools like Auslogics Freeware Defrag, to repartition the disk.
2) You may try to delete a less important partition created already and merge the space together to create a new partition with proper drive letter.
Deleting the partitions created by the OEM is often not possible due to the way the OEMs configure the partitions. Therefore the option then is to extend the operating system partition back to the original size to regain use of the unallocated space. If additional storage is needed, consider adding an external USB hard disk.
More Here.
There could be two possible solutions for this issue:
1) As the disk pre-configured by OEM may have conflicts with disk management tool in Windows Vista, you should try some 3rd party tools like Auslogics Freeware Defrag, to repartition the disk.
2) You may try to delete a less important partition created already and merge the space together to create a new partition with proper drive letter.
Deleting the partitions created by the OEM is often not possible due to the way the OEMs configure the partitions. Therefore the option then is to extend the operating system partition back to the original size to regain use of the unallocated space. If additional storage is needed, consider adding an external USB hard disk.
More Here.
OP
INS-ANI
In the zone
Thats nice, thanks.
But i seem to have digged my own grave. I shrinked my C drive to get a 10GB of unallocated space, which i was unable to use as primary drive. SO i installed ubuntu on this space. Later i deleted the partition, but now my Vista shows 10GB worth of free space, which i cant merge with my C drive or D (recovery)Drive.
But i seem to have digged my own grave. I shrinked my C drive to get a 10GB of unallocated space, which i was unable to use as primary drive. SO i installed ubuntu on this space. Later i deleted the partition, but now my Vista shows 10GB worth of free space, which i cant merge with my C drive or D (recovery)Drive.
OP
INS-ANI
In the zone
here's something to tell the detail abt my problem
Code:
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6000
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: INS-ANI
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 10 GB
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 RECOVERY NTFS Partition 10 GB Healthy
Volume 1 C OS NTFS Partition 127 GB Healthy System
Volume 2 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
DISKPART>
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 10 GB
DISKPART> select partition=0
There is no disk selected to set the partition.
Select a disk and try again.
DISKPART> select disk=0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 OEM 78 MB 32 KB
Partition 2 Primary 10 GB 79 MB
Partition 3 Primary 127 GB 10 GB
Partition 0 Extended 12 GB 137 GB
Partition 4 Logical 2559 MB 147 GB
DISKPART> select partition=0
Partition 0 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> detail
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6000
DISK - Display the properties of the selected disk.
PARTITION - Display the properties of the selected partition.
VOLUME - Display the properties of the selected volume.
DISKPART> detail partition
Partition 0
Type : 0F
Hidden: No
Active: No
There is no volume associated with this partition.
DISKPART> delete partition
Cannot delete a non-empty extended partition.
DISKPART> set id=07
Virtual Disk Service error:
Check the event log for errors.
DiskPart encountered an unexpected error.
Check the system event log for more information on the failure.
DISKPART> set id=07 override
Virtual Disk Service error:
Check the event log for errors.
DiskPart encountered an unexpected error.
Check the system event log for more information on the failure.
DISKPART> set id=07 noerr
Virtual Disk Service error:
Check the event log for errors.
DiskPart encountered an unexpected error.
Check the system event log for more information on the failure.
DISKPART> inactive partition
The arguments specified for this command are not valid.
For more information on the command type: HELP INACTIVE
DISKPART> inactive
The current partition is already marked inactive.
DISKPART> active
The selected partition is not a data partition.
Only data partitions can be marked active or inactive.
DISKPART> active override noerr
The arguments specified for this command are not valid.
For more information on the command type: HELP ACTIVE
DISKPART> active override noerr- Status