I just installed Windows 7 on a 100Gb partition after a lot of trouble getting it to work. Anyway it all runs fine but I can only use the 100Gb partition for storage at the moment how do i get my other 900Gb's back? I can see in my HDD properties that their is 900Gb's with no drive letter assigned to it, so any help on how to reclaim my other Gb's would be good.
How to create new volume?
- Thread starter adam2008
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Go into Disk Management, and if the 900GB is already formatted etc, simply assign a letter to it, ie., right click the volume in righthand pane etc, if the 900GB is not formatted, simply do that first and give it a letter when running wizard...
do you mean making your C drive into the full 1000GB, instead of having the separate partitions?
If you're using vista/7, delete that new partition you made, then open cmd, run 'diskpart', run 'list disk' then 'select disk #' (where # is the disk number, probably 0 if you only have one hdd) then 'select partition 1' and finally 'expand' . that will make the C volume fill all the space on the drive.
otherwise you can use an NTFS directory junction to have folders in your my documents that actually link to another drive. open cmd, run 'mklink /J c:\users\name\documents\juntionfoldername e:\folder-where-you-actually-want-to-store-the-files
If you're using vista/7, delete that new partition you made, then open cmd, run 'diskpart', run 'list disk' then 'select disk #' (where # is the disk number, probably 0 if you only have one hdd) then 'select partition 1' and finally 'expand' . that will make the C volume fill all the space on the drive.
otherwise you can use an NTFS directory junction to have folders in your my documents that actually link to another drive. open cmd, run 'mklink /J c:\users\name\documents\juntionfoldername e:\folder-where-you-actually-want-to-store-the-files
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