Can't Find A Way For Computer To Allow Me To Partition Drive
Sep 16, 2005
When I go into Computer Management and click on Disk Management, all I have is my hard disk which is a primary partition. I can't find a way for my computer to allow me to partition the drive even PartitionMagic can't do it for me.
I can't find my Flash Drive icon in My Computer, but I can find it in Disk Management as H drive.A search in Google and it said that to change the drive letter/path to K or higher will be alright but I changed from K to the higher one at a time, still can't find the flash drive icon in My Computer.
Cannot reformat it, because it's the only hard drive with my information left on it. The one it came from was totalled and there's no way to back it up.On startup, it recognizes that the hard drive is in. But it doesn't show up on My Computer.
What are the steps needed to access one of my partitions, delete it, then use 1/2 the space and apply to system drive and the other 1/2 to another partition?
An article previously published und Q226476 explains how to change the default where the drive opens and it applies to Windows 98 SE. It says to click START and then FOLDER OPTIONS, then on the FILE TYPES tab, click DRIVE and click EDIT.You can do everything except the last click. There is no EDIT.I would like to have the drive open to explorer rather than open the FIND window.
A got a new HP d290 model computer, which came with Free DOS O/S (that is without the Windows XP operating system.It has a Samsung brand 80 GB HD. However on partitioning and formating this HD (using Win 98 / SE,FDISK.Exe file), the total space available is only 78,109,888 bytes (split in to 3 parts). On another computer, made by a different company and with almost similar configuration, I have a Maxtor brand 80 GB HD and on partitioning and formatting, it had 80, 009, 888 bytes available (that is 1.9 GB more)This HD also has 3 partitions.It seems the HP's Samsung HD has a hidden partition. I tried to find it with FDSIK.EXE and also with Partition Magic (version 8.2) and Partition Manager (version 5.5), but was unsuccessful.Is there any other Partition related software, which can show a hidden partition and also be able to delete the same (without damaging the C~ partition)?
recently we had power failure and when I turned my computer back on, my bios came up.I tryed to exit out but some how disconnected or turned off my second hard drive and can not get it to go in the active state again, how do I check for the missing letter E that the drive is on orfind access to this drive
Something unexplained happened and don't know if its related to the XP (SP2) op system, new clip art or Norton 2006 install--or something else. Seems the system has a difficult time finding "my computer" when you select it. A flash light appears and after several minutes, the screen finally appears with all the drives listed. But that's not all. When I'm in a program--Microsoft or others--and want to browse to find the correct file, image, etc. to open, the system locks/freezes and won't let you select or even find the right thing.
Windows XP home cannot find 2nd hard drive, it does not show up in disk management. It does show up in the bios.At one point it did show up, healthy formatted NTFS drive.I was able to add a fileafter that it was gone.I have one user account, and GUEST account.I checked permissions and set them all to enable.
I'm running Win XP Home SP2 (all up-to-date) on a 6 month old HP laptop. I just bought a new 250GB external USB IDE drive which I formatted to NTFS and just 1 partition. Now I want to partition the disk to 3 different partitions. I went into the Win XP Disk Management utility and when I right click on the external disk one of the options is Delete Partition. Is that the correct first step I need to take before creating the 3 partitions? Or is there some other way to create the 3 partitions? I want each of the 3 partitions to have their own drive letter.
I have Windows XP , total physical memory 2,058MB, available physical memory 1.26 gb. My hard drive is partitioned into Drive C, with 20GB capacity, 1.45 GB free space (7% ), and Drive D, with 213 GB capacity and 213 GB free space.
With only 7% free space in Drive C, I am restricted in doing some things such as defragmenting and using some programs. How do I take advantage of all this empty space on Drive D, which is just sitting there, to relieve the pressure on Drive C?
I'm currently in the process of selling my laptop. I wanted to nuke the while disk to make sure all my confidential information had gone, using DBAN, but I couldn't get it to create a disk, so instead I'm deleting the partitions on my computer, formatting them, then erasing them using Heidi's Eraser (35 passes).
I had two partitions: a C and D drive. I installed two OS's on the C drive, and I deleted the D partition, and created a new one which became F. i then erased F, so that anything that was on the previous D had been completely cleaned. I then put on a copy of XP on F. So, when I start up my computer, I use the OS which is logged on F. Can i delete the C partition now, which has two OS's on it, whilst I'm using the OS on F? I want to do that, create a new partition, and then erase it 35 passes.
My sony vaio computer ( C drive ) is getting slow and has only 3.67 GB free space left out of 13.76 GB. The D drive has 60.5 GB of unused space. Is there a way to transfer some of the data on the c drive to the d drive and still have it available?
40GB HD installed recently. Unfortunately, the installer took the simplest option of making the whole new drive a single partition, instead of two of 8GB and 32GB, identical to the other drive. The organisation is therefore now as follows:That's obviously more secure than before, but I'd like to go further. I want to use DriveImage 2002 to copy the OS to F, so that in an emergency we could boot up to that instead of C. But DI won't allow that. Even though C contains only a TOTAL of about 7GB, and F is 8GB,it says there is insufficient space. It's been a long time since I last used DI, and I'm nervous about how best to proceed at minimum risk. Can I achieve my aim by using the facilities under Disk Operations to 'Redistribute free space among partitions'?
When the system boots into the new drive R:, it still wants the boot partition c: for something. If I boot with the IDE disconnected, it'll boot to the login screen, and allow me to log in, but after a few minutes of a blank screen & cursor, it drops back to the login.
I have PartitionMagic 7.0, and used DriveMapper to change all references to C: to R:, but that didn't do it. How do I cut my system's dependence on the failing drive, before it fails altogether?
i have a primary hard drive working fine and added another hard drive 80gig maxtor as a slave and i'm using win xp pro.
i know there's computer management menu here in winxp, my question is:on how to format then partition my second hd,into 2(40 gig and 40 gig).basically i need the correct steps or commands.
When I completely re-did my hard drive, I split it into two partitions; a 50gb C: and a 30gb paritition. I don't know how to format or access my 30gb partition or turn it into an actual (letter):Do I need a special program?
I have an old customized computer from my grandma and when it boots up it asks me to select a operation system, there are two. How do I delete the operating system I don't want?I don't care if I have to reformat the whole hard drive... I would actually prefer to. And I have tried to delete one, but I cant seem to get rid of one of them.
Im not sure what i deleted but i deleted a partition or a logical drive while reinstalling windows XP now my second HDD or Partition or Logical Drive is not showing. & when i go to DIsk mangment it does not diplay an unallocated space, RAW drive or unformatted drive its just the C: drive laying there.Is there any chance of recovering the drive but not the files the D drive only.
I want to install Vista RC1 as a dual boot with my Windows XP.What is the best way to do this and what software do I need (free would be nice) to create a new partition on my drive? I have a 160GB drive with lots of free room was thinking about using 30GB for the new partition?
I'm not sure this belongs in this section so if its out of place, plz move it.Ok, I just bought a HITACHI HDT725032VLA360 320GB HDD. My OS is currently installed on my 80GB WD800JB. I was thinking of reinstalling windows on the HITACHI but I'm unsure of how to partition it to ensure my performance is as good as possible. So what are your recommendations for the partition size for the OS on the HITACHI ?
I was hit by the hurricane when it was a category 1 hurricane and lost power for several days. During this time I had my computer off. When power finally came back on I turned on my computer, but even though I didn't lose power again the phase went up and down. When I tried to turn my computer on again I got a blue screen, and then I started getting an error message when it tried to load windows 2000.
I recently turned on my computer to find that one of my hard drives is not formated, but was full of data the day before.Is there a way to recover the partition and data without paying for data recovery services?
I am using xp home and have a 18.6 GB byte hard drive and will be reformatting soon and was wondering if I should partition it or not.What are the advantages?Is it ok to leave it as 1 as I have it now?
I have an xp partition that takes up about half of my hard drive.The rest of the hard drive is just un-partitioned space.What is the easiest and fastest way to resize the xp partition so that it takes up the entire hard drive?
I have partitioned my hard drive and loaded Windows XP in one partition. How do I set the default to load any programs into the second partition. My intent is to only have the operating system in the first partition.