Windows 10: Best way to manage disk/drive storage

Microsoft 365 wants to store everything on my C drive and I am running out of space and I'm sure it is slowing my laptop down. It is very frustrating! I can't modify the partitions in Disk 1, which has C drive, extend is greyed out, I can only shrink, 3 recovery partitions, an EFI partition that only allow me to select help, and 10Mb unallocated, which allows new simple volume.What should it look like and what is the best way to change the storage around? Neither changing the 365 drive space or moving partitions seem to be straightforward. This is on Windows 11. Thanks in advanceFiona

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How to Partiton a Hard Drive in Vista

This is a way to get Vista to see another hard drive that is not associated with the OS. There is some times when your new hdd doesn't seem to want to work well with Vista. But, there is a solution in it.

Open the Computer Management By doing these steps.

• Click on the Start Button
• Click on Control Panel
• Click Administrative Tools
• Double click on Computer Management

You are now in the Navigation panel of the Computer Management.
When in Computer Management, you then have to allow the new drive to be recognized.

• Double click on Storage
• Double click on Disk Management

Now in the middle of your screen there is the layout of the Disk Drives that you have. The drives that are partitioned will show by the drive lettering. The others will just show up as having nothing at all in them. Below that there will be the Disk drives that are installed into the computer. You'll see that the primary one will all ways read as "Disk 0". Then you will have Disk 1 and so on. Under the Disks there will also see your CD-Rom drives.. If there is more then one, it will be labeled the same as Disk drives..

On to the Partitioning of the drive in question.

• Right Click on the drive
• Click to format the drive or Enable Volume. There will be a series of windows that open up. This is Vista's formatting. Just go threw the windows, and make sure everything is the way you want it to happen.
• Once the formatting is done, will take some time depending on the drive size.
• Right click on the drive
• Click on Mark the Partition as Active

After you have done those steps, The drive will be up and running threw Vista.



:Side Notes:
If you are not the Administer to the Os, then you will have to enable it..
You may also want to redo the drive lettering of it all. But, I really don't see a reason to do so. If you do, you have to redo drive paths and so forth.. A lot of work on something so small...

 

Disk Management

Hi Keith,

Thanks for providing the detail that was requested previously. Since the disk management screen that you saw is showing greyed out options, we suggest that you follow the steps below to change the partition type of your internal drive:

• Open Disk Management then right click the partition on the disk you want to covert and select Delete Volume.
• Once you complete the process you will see the whole disk shown as two separate unallocated spaces. Right-click the disk and select Convert to GPT disk.

After the conversion, you will be able to use the whole disk and then you can create new separate partitions.

We look forward to your response to our queries.

 

After deleting 2.5" SATA laptop drive from Storage Spaces pool, and deleting pool, drive no longer visible in DIskpart or disk management afterward

Rebooted, no help, no sign of formerly good drive appearing in either diskpart (with subsequent 'list disk'), and, no trace of it in 'disk management'...

As this drive is in a 5.25" Icy Dock bay, shutdown, tested another 2.5" SATA in dock, no issues. Shutdown, reinserted WD drive, no sign of it!

Suggestions, other than concluding 'removal of drive from Storage Spaces pool and deleting pool via Storage Spaces menus may be a permanent drive destroyer/nuker'?

I have a pair of WD Red Plus 12 TB drives on order I was planning on making a Storage Spaces mirror with, but, color me skeptical after this experience...