"Unallocated Disk"

Hello,
While partitioning my hard drive of 250GB (7.44gb EISA configuration + C
Drive), I got 40GB(E+50GB(D+19.74GB(UNALLOCATED)+rest on C drive.

I am using Vista OS.
My questions are:
1. How do I get 19.74gb back to allocated?
2. Is it not possible to have as many partition as i wish? If not, how many
partition i can have on a system?

Thanks.
Samalendu.

Hello Samalendu,

You can only have up to 4 normal partitions on a hard drive using Disk
Management in Vista.

If you want to use the D: 19.74GB partition by itself, then this may
help you.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...partition.html

If you wanted to extend C: into the D: partition to put the space back
on C: , then this may help you instead.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...te-extend.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


Samalendu;907639 Wrote:
> Hello,
> While partitioning my hard drive of 250GB (7.44gb EISA configuration +
> C
> Drive), I got 40GB( E:+50GB( D:+19.74GB(UNALLOCATED)+rest on C drive.
>
> I am using Vista OS.
> My questions are:
> 1. How do I get 19.74gb back to allocated?
> 2. Is it not possible to have as many partition as i wish? If not, how
> many
> partition i can have on a system?
>
> Thanks.
> Samalendu.


--
Brink

*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
them.*
*and*
*Please post feedback to help others.*

Go to disk manager and format that partition!
You're allowed up to 4 per hard disk.

I'm assuming you chose NTFS file structure?


"Samalendu" wrote:

> Hello,
> While partitioning my hard drive of 250GB (7.44gb EISA configuration + C
> Drive), I got 40GB(E+50GB(D+19.74GB(UNALLOCATED)+rest on C drive.
>
> I am using Vista OS.
> My questions are:
> 1. How do I get 19.74gb back to allocated?
> 2. Is it not possible to have as many partition as i wish? If not, how many
> partition i can have on a system?
>
> Thanks.
> Samalendu.
>
>

What is a "normal" partition?

You can have up to 4 **primary* partitions on a hard drive.

You can have 3 primary partitions and one extended partition (a type of
primary partition). Within this extended partition you can create many
additional **LOGICAL** partitions.

All of the above are NORMAL partitions.

Just because drive manager within Vista only creates primary partitions does
not make them the only normal partition!

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Brink" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hello Samalendu,
>
> You can only have up to 4 normal partitions on a hard drive using Disk
> Management in Vista.
>
> If you want to use the D: 19.74GB partition by itself, then this may
> help you.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...partition.html
>
> If you wanted to extend C: into the D: partition to put the space back
> on C: , then this may help you instead.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...te-extend.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
> Samalendu;907639 Wrote:
>> Hello,
>> While partitioning my hard drive of 250GB (7.44gb EISA configuration +
>> C
>> Drive), I got 40GB( E:+50GB( D:+19.74GB(UNALLOCATED)+rest on C drive.
>>
>> I am using Vista OS.
>> My questions are:
>> 1. How do I get 19.74gb back to allocated?
>> 2. Is it not possible to have as many partition as i wish? If not, how
>> many
>> partition i can have on a system?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Samalendu.
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
> > *and*
> > *Please post feedback to help others.*