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    Computer only showing 1 partition!!!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by soulhacker, Aug 2, 2011.

  1. soulhacker

    soulhacker Notebook Consultant

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    I just did a clean install of w7. When it asked me to select which partition to install windows in, I wanted to kill all the partitions and create my own...so I did that. I deleted the recovery partition of 16 gb as well as the reserve partition of 100mb...I was left with 465GB of "unallocated space". I then created a new partiton of 100GB on which i wanted to install w7. i selected this partition and left the remaining 365GB of "unallocated space" alone as a separate partition. Windows installed on the 100GB partiton without any problems, However, upon completion of the clean install I opened "My Computer" and it only showed the primary partition of 100GB on which the OS was installed and there was no visible drive where the remaining 365GB's should be.....I freaked out and inserted my system recovery disks and restored my m14x to the factory state with the factory partitions.....

    I want to be able to do a clean install and create my own sized partitions....does anyone know why this happened???
     
    soulhacker, Aug 2, 2011
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  2. ejohnson

    ejohnson Is that lemon zest?

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    You left it as unallocated. You need to go into the disc wizard thing and turn that space into a usable partition.
     
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    Ok lol that makes sense....would I do this during partitioning? Or is this something that needs to be done after ive installed on the 100GB and windows boots up? Where can i access the disk wizard thing?? Thanks
     
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    ejohnson Is that lemon zest?

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    thanks a lot, it was helpfull for sure, I am also trying to see how i can allocate that remaining 365GB while creating the partition instead of leaving it as "unallocated space" so that once the clean install boots, it shows up instead of having to create it after the fact....
     
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    open the start menu, right click "computer" and select "manage." Navigate to storage, then disk management. From there you can right click on the unallocated space and allocate it as you wish.
     
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    thanks!! I will go ahead and re do the fresh install and then once my 100GB of OS drive boots I will try and follow this procedure to allocate the remaining space....
     
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    FIXED!! :) thanks a lot guys....As ejohnson said, i had accidently left the partition unallocated...i reinstalled the OS and when the partition screen came i created my partitions and then for the remaining space, I created another partition exactly the size of the remaining space and that fixed the problem :)
     
    soulhacker, Aug 2, 2011
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