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    windows wont recognize 2nd partition

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mazinya, Dec 14, 2010.

  1. mazinya

    mazinya Notebook Guru

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    Im doing a fresh install of win 7 on my 3820tg. Since i have 500GB i wanna split it, but the problem is that after installation completes, i dont see the 2nd volume. When i entered setup again and did the same process, i found out that when i create the partition, it only recognize the first volume "disk 0 partition 3" as primary, and the 2nd volume, it just says " disk 0 unallocated space" but it shows me the exact GB i gave it. so i believe thats the problem.

    Can anyone help me how do i solve this?
     
    mazinya, Dec 14, 2010
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  2. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    Well im not sure 100% what your getting at but. Once the drive is partitioned and you select which partiton you want to install on that partition is formatted.

    The other partition probably wasnt formatted yet, but would normally still show a drive letter and let you format it.

    Go to control panel, classic view (if 7 does it that way) look for Administrative tools, in there is Computer Management, in there once its open click on Storage>DiskManagement.

    You can now see all drives and partitions see whats there try to format and assign a drive letter to the other partition (operations can be accessed by right clicking on the partition).
     
    RainMotorsports, Dec 14, 2010
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  3. Arminator

    Arminator Notebook Evangelist

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    According to the details you mentioned, you have split your HDD space, and created only first partition, since, as you said, the rest of the HDD space is marked as "unallocated"...

    All you have to do is to create second partition by allocating the rest of the HDD to the second partition and it all should be fine...

    You can do that by "Create and format hard disk partitions" in Administrative tools in Control panel...

    Cheers...
     
    Arminator, Dec 14, 2010
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  4. mazinya

    mazinya Notebook Guru

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    Thanks for the advice. im reinstalling windows again and then i will do what you both suggested.

    @ClutchX2, what i meant is, that before the format i had drive C and drive D (which was called "DATA"). What i meant is that after the installation i can see drive C but i cant see the DATA drive which has the most space available. its not that i see a drive letter and i just need to format it, i dont see any drive letter but C. The 2nd drive letter wont even show

    I just dont remember i had to do the same thing (the control panel) when i installed win 7 on my desktop PC. It immediately recognized the 2nd drive.

    anyway, im gonna try this once the installation is finished and will update

    EDIT: it worked. thanks guys
     
    mazinya, Dec 14, 2010
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