Windows 10: My 'Games' HDD Partition (D:) Became a Simple Partition (Olive Yellow), it used to be a...

Yes, I've tried everything in the Disk Management tool, but I can't seem to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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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

 

To Partition HDD or not?

Partition the HDD with PRIMARY not logical partitions.

Why?

1. Organisation
2. Better, faster, defragmentation
3. Easier to backup or copy specific partitions
4. If you have a drive problem, SEPARATE PRIMARY partitions are easier to recover and are essentially ringfenced. (unless fail is catastrophic)
5. With separate partitions (into separate drive letters) you save yourself one level hierarchy in your directory/folder structure. IMO that is neater AND faster at the command line or search across a network


I use d:/ for data
And g:/ for games
And m:/ for media (music and video)
And s:/ for setup files

 

Partition application

Could you suggest me a nice software to manage partitions on my HDD?

I`m using Win7 64bit.