Windows 10: Accidentally Partitioned a Hard Drive D:

Hi, while attempting and successfully doing the fix listed in the following post: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf - I accidentally partitioned the wrong drive and partition My D: drive I keep most of my games and applications like Steam on having not understood step 2 determins the correct location. After completing the fix the correct way on a restart it seems to no longer list my D: drive and everything in it is not linked anymore leading to dead files an

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

hard drive partition problem

Hi Azhar,

We would like to know more information regarding your hard drive partition concern. For better assistance, kindly answer the following questions:

• Do you want to boot your computer from partition (D or
  (E? If yes, are you encountering any issues with the default boot drive
  (C?
• What troubleshooting steps have you taken so far?

Regards.

 

Partition or multiple hard drives?

As the title suggests. Is it worth installing say a 36GB drive for the OS soley or partitioning an existing larger drive with either 2 or more partitions? I am currently running Vista 32bit and want to try out 64bit and am sick of reformatting the whole drive. Any suggestions?