Windows 10: Unusable Hard drive partition?

Discus and support Unusable Hard drive partition? in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Hello, I recently installed a new solid state drive in my computer. I ran WD Acronis software to clone my boot drive to the new drive. After I cloned... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Alexander R_896, Jul 17, 2018.

  1. Unusable Hard drive partition?


    Hello, I recently installed a new solid state drive in my computer. I ran WD Acronis software to clone my boot drive to the new drive. After I cloned my drive, I noticed that I have the exact same amount of free space available. I went into Disk Management and found out that the extra space on my drive I was supposed to have was a seperate partition labelled "Recovery Partititon" (I never selected any option to make that), and I am unable to do anything with this partition. How do I make this "recovery partition" free space in my Windows Boot Drive Partition. I have looked up guides and all of them say to right click on the recovery partition and format it into free space, but when I right click it, the only option given is "help"

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    Alexander R_896, Jul 17, 2018
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  2. W1zzard Win User

    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
     
    W1zzard, Jul 17, 2018
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  3. Dia01 Win User
    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?
     
    Dia01, Jul 17, 2018
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  4. Unusable Hard drive partition?

    hard partition

    Hi Prasad,

    Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

    I understand that you are trying to extend the Volume of Drives and create partitions from C: drive.

    I would suggest you to follow the steps and check if it helps you.

    • Press Windows + R keys, type diskmgmt.msc hit
      enter.
    • Disk management will open. Right click on the C: drive
      below in the segments of the partitions.
    • Select Shrink Volume. Select the Amount of space
      you want to extend in MBs (1GB = 1024MB).
    • Follow the instruction and check if it creates a Unallocated Drive.
    Later after the Unallocated drive is created follow the below steps to crate a partition.

    • Right click on the Unallocated drive and select
      New Simple Volume.
    • Select the Drive letter and follow the instructions and check if it
      creates a partition.
    • Follow the same to Create partition.
    Note: C: drive must be not less than 100GB if you are using a 1TB hard drive. partitions must not be more than 3 drives to have a better functioning of the system.

    Keep us posted to help you better.
     
    Sachin Venkatesh, Jul 17, 2018
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