Windows 10: cant create big partitions

i have 394gb available in my disk and i want to create a partition with like 200gb, but it only allows me to create it with 37gb, what can i do? thanks for reading an sorry for bad english

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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

 

Help, cant create windows image

Hello there, @fullinfusion!

It seems like some sort of an OS confusion has happened with your secondary WD Black and I'm sorry to hear about that. *Frown
Maybe re-formatting it would help indeed as the community already mentioned. I'd suggest to take a look at this step-by-step how to partition and format an HDD: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=PYCoid
Keep in mind that this will wipe clean the drive, so you should backup all important data from the drive somewhere else.
I noticed from the screenshots that your HDD appears as Disk 0, this means that it's plugged in the primary SATA port where the SSD (as an OS drive) should be. Actually it is possible that because of this Windows cannot create the image there. Swap the ports of the SSD and the HDD, this might help as well.

Keep me posted. Hope this helped! *Smile
SuperSoph_WD

 

Cant merge Partitions

I'm going to assume you don't have the room to move the files on the G partition, that's why you can't just delete it and create one big partition.
1.) Create and format a partition using the unallocated space at the beginning of the drive.
2.) Move all the files from the G partition to the new partition you just created.
3.) Delete the G partition and the Recovery partition in the middle of the drive.(You might have to use DiskPart to delete the recovery partition)
4.) Extend the single partition remaining on the drive to use up the entire drive.