Unallocated Space

[ilyabyk83]

Hello folks. I have a tiny problem. My drive is 230 gigabytes, I have my drive divided in 2 portions. 1 is 215 GB - Primary, and 2 - 15 GB Unallocated. I'm using Acronis Disk Director to see this info. What I would like to do, is to make 1 partition of 230 GB. Like I said I have Aconis Disk Director Suite 10 installed. How and what do I do to do this?? Thank you people for your help!!

 

[HexManiac]

Is it a Logical (purple) or Primary (yellow) partition (the one you want to resize)? You should just be able to hit resize and sweep the edge of the partition over the unallocated space, then finish.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Have never used the Acronis - from your description, the unallocated volume is on the right of your 215gb one ( as seen in Disk Management ).

In that case you can use Vista's own disk management tool .


Just right click the partition you wish to extend and select Extend.

Fill in the space you want to add in MB and click Next.

In the next window, click Finish.

For screenshots, see step 2 in this tutorial

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html

Hope it helps

SIW2

 

[ilyabyk83]

Hi,

Have never used the Acronis - from your description, the unallocated volume is on the right of your 215gb one ( as seen in Disk Management ).

In that case you can use Vista's own disk management tool .


Just right click the partition you wish to extend and select Extend.

Fill in the space you want to add in MB and click Next.

In the next window, click Finish.

For screenshots, see step 2 in this tutorial

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html

Hope it helps

SIW2

Thanx. But I want to do the opposite. Delete it!! And I can't do it by using Vista's tool. The option to "Delete" is shaded. Thank you for you help.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Vista won't delete it if it is already Unallocated space, that would just make it unallocated again.

Just right click the 215gb drive and select extend - you can then
include the 15gb Unallocated and end up with one big 230gb drive.

See the last 4 screenshots at the bottom of this tutorial.

How to manage your disks using only Windows Vista's Disk Management tool | Windows Vista for Beginners

This will only work if the Unallocated space ( with black bar across the top ) is on the right as viewed in Vista's Disk Management window - like the screenshot in the tutorial.

Hope that helps

SIW2

 

[ilyabyk83]

Hold up, let me perform this

 

[ilyabyk83]

Can you please help me, what is the command to start the man. ut.??

 

[ilyabyk83]

Hi,

Vista won't delete it if it is already Unallocated space, that would just make it unallocated again.

Just right click the 215gb drive and select extend - you can then
include the 15gb Unallocated and end up with one big 230gb drive.

See the last 4 screenshots at the bottom of this tutorial.

How to manage your disks using only Windows Vista's Disk Management tool | Windows Vista for Beginners

This will only work if the Unallocated space ( with black bar across the top ) is on the right as viewed in Vista's Disk Management window - like the screenshot in the tutorial.

Hope that helps

SIW2

"Extend" is grayed out!!

 

[SIW2]

Hi

Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management - click ok at uac prompt - in the new window that opens click Disk Management ( it's on the left pane under Storage ) - takes a couple of seconds to open.

SIW2

 

[ilyabyk83]

 

[SIW2]

Sorry, can't see what you just posted.

Please post a jpeg screenshot of your Disk Management window

see step 7 onward of this tutorial

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148532-how-use-snipping-tool-vista.html

To get to the place you see in step 7, click the Go Advanced button at the bottom of this page

 

[ilyabyk83]

Sorry, can't see what you just posted.

Please post a jpeg screenshot of your Disk Management window

see step 7 onward of this tutorial

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148532-how-use-snipping-tool-vista.html

To get to the place you see in step 7, click the Go Advanced button at the bottom of this page

Thanx for the instructions!

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

That's because the Unallocated space is on the left -Vista will only extend to the right.

It is possible to use a 3rd party tool to do extend to the left-but I'm not sure this is what you want. Might be better to move the partitions non-destructively so the Vista partition is on the outer edge of the drive , i.e. on the left. Then extend to one big partition - I have gparted which can do this , but is a little complicated to explain.

I'll try and get barman58 to see if he has any ideas.

 

[Barman58]

Hi ilyabyk83,

as SIW2 has said Acronis should be able to extend the system partition to fill the whole drive without problems, as it's a lot more powerful than the built-in windows manager. you may want to look at the move partition option in acronis to move the c: partition to the left of the free space and then extend the partition but acronis should be capable of doing what you want without problems.

As with anything of this sort I would advise that you backup any irreplaceable personal files before you start. Apps such as acronis are as safe as they can be but with major operations there is always a chance of an error causing data loss.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Hexmaniacs post on the previous page is worth follwing.
Also you can download a user guide from here

Acronis backup software and recovery services in UK. True Image userguide, Disk Director documentation and all other user guide available for free download in PDF format

Siw2

 

[ilyabyk83]

Hi,

Hexmaniacs post on the previous page is worth follwing.
Also you can download a user guide from here

Acronis backup software and recovery services in UK. True Image userguide, Disk Director documentation and all other user guide available for free download in PDF format

Siw2

Thank You!!!! Very helpful!!

 

[rdharper]

Hi,

Vista won't delete it if it is already Unallocated space, that would just make it unallocated again.

Just right click the 215gb drive and select extend - you can then
include the 15gb Unallocated and end up with one big 230gb drive.

See the last 4 screenshots at the bottom of this tutorial.

How to manage your disks using only Windows Vista's Disk Management tool | Windows Vista for Beginners

This will only work if the Unallocated space ( with black bar across the top ) is on the right as viewed in Vista's Disk Management window - like the screenshot in the tutorial.

Hope that helps

SIW2

Same problem here... thanks for posting a simple solution. In my case, I had an unallocate 90GB partition. The options were not "extend", but span, or make a simple volume... which would be a 90GB Drive D, in my case. I took the later... not a bad solution... and I didn't want to risk the "spanned", which I suspect would have done the trick. My T400 had a partition set aside right in the middle.. drive Q. Probably a caching area... haven't had this puppy long enough to know all of the ins and outs.

In my case, I got the "unpartitioned" area in the same fashion as the original poster. Aconis, an excellent bit of software, wanted this much space, in a backup hidden partition for the rest of the sytem. After seeing the size, I deleted it as an Acronis hidden partition. Which left the problem of reallocating the space for my use. I didn't really need it as, I clone my drive about once a month, which is a far better backup situation for me... and far simpler.

I had been using Ez-gig for this on previous systems, but EZ-gig software will not run on Vista 64 (at this time), and Acronis does. I can slip a second drive in the ultra-bay in place of the dvd drive... and clone it in a matter of 30 minutes. Works great.

Anyway... thanks again for a solution I probably should have discovered on my own.

Richard