Win 10 64 bit

alan whitaker · 27 Oct 2015 at 18:15

Hi
Just put win 10 on, happy with the install, will get used to it.
One question if anybody can help with.
Bios sees all the hard drives (all SATA) and the size of them but in win 10 one of the drives is showing only 100 mb and I know its a 200 gb, all the rest are showing the correct size.

Alan

moogle · 27 Oct 2015 at 18:17

Open device manager and see if you can see the partition on the drive in there.

It could be that it isn't a full size partition.

alan whitaker · 27 Oct 2015 at 18:24

Hi
Nothing showing, it shows the size in general, in volume nothing

Alan

Quartz · 27 Oct 2015 at 18:25

alan whitaker said:
Hi
Just put win 10 on, happy with the install, will get used to it.
One question if anybody can help with.
Bios sees all the hard drives (all SATA) and the size of them but in win 10 one of the drives is showing only 100 mb and I know its a 200 gb, all the rest are showing the correct size.

Alan

The 100 MB partition will be the EFI partition. It should not be given a drive letter.

alan whitaker · 27 Oct 2015 at 18:26

explain further if you would please

Alan

Orcvader · 27 Oct 2015 at 19:58

What does disk management show? Can you take a screenshot?

Quartz · 27 Oct 2015 at 20:55

alan whitaker said:
explain further if you would please

It's set up automatically during the install process.

Captain · 27 Oct 2015 at 21:00

If you open Disk Management you should see all your drives, right click the one showing 100mb and choose extend drive, this will expand to it's full size.

Quartz · 27 Oct 2015 at 21:10

The OP most likely has a PC with a UEFI BIOS so a 100 MB partition will be set up during the install.

alan whitaker · 27 Oct 2015 at 22:09

Hi
Not able to post pictures, working on it.
Here is what I have

Disk 0 (ssd 250gb ) shown boot page dump primary partition
Disk 1 101mb unallocated (black bar above). partition and 465.27 healtyactive primory partition
Disc 2 ok 250 gb
Disc 3 ok 250gb
Disk 4 system reserved 500mb . partition line 465.27 mb unallocated (black line above)

Alan

Orcvader · 27 Oct 2015 at 22:34

alan whitaker said:
Hi
Not able to post pictures, working on it.
Here is what I have

Disk 0 (ssd 250gb ) shown boot page dump primary partition
Disk 1 101mb unallocated (black bar above). partition and 465.27 healtyactive primory partition
Disc 2 ok 250 gb
Disc 3 ok 250gb
Disk 4 system reserved 500mb . partition line 465.27 mb unallocated (black line above)

Alan

Upload it to here then post the link to it: http://imgur.com/

From the sounds of things it sounds like some of your HDDs had previous Windows installs and you left all your drives connected during the 10 installation?

alan whitaker · 27 Oct 2015 at 22:43

One had windows 7 on and 1 is brand new, sorted 1 out.
only have 1 now showing a problem
System reserved 465.76 with a blue line, I think this had win7 on it

Alan

Orcvader · 28 Oct 2015 at 00:04

Use the site I linked earlier to upload a screenshot (press printscreen, open paint, paste, save), sorry but I'm struggling to imagine how your partitions and drives are set up with words alone

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alan whitaker · 28 Oct 2015 at 07:40

Hi
I hope I have put the right link

Alan

Or This one

http://i.imgur.com/L300QDk.jpg

Orcvader · 31 Oct 2015 at 10:44

That seems... confusing.

Did you have only one drive conncted during the Windows 10 installation? And the drive that says system reserved at 465GB, if this was Windows 7, was it encrypted?

alan whitaker · 31 Oct 2015 at 20:00

Hi
First, big thanks for all the replies, I shrunk the partition and made the rest as usable space.
This is a old drive from my old system, MB went bad so been using the laptop for the last month or two. It did have win 7 on, never formatted it as I had some things on it I wanted to save.
All sorted out, win 10 working great just few things to work out as there are so many changes from win 7.

Alan