Unassigned HDD Space

Murzo · 10 Jul 2009 at 14:45

Hey,

i built my new system yesterday and while installing windows 7 i was creating seperate partions for my music, films, TV series etc. At the moment i have 3 partions (one for windows/apps/music, one for films, one for TV series), this all comes to about 900GB (292gb, 292gb, 244gb) i have a 1tb wd black, so i have 100gb of unassigned space. Is there anyway to assign this to a new partion?

Thanks
Murzo

AbsenceJam · 10 Jul 2009 at 16:08

Yes type Disk Management into the start menu but I'd actually suggest just two partitions, one for your OS (and programs) to make any reinstalls easier and another for storage. Partitions physically divide the drive and can lead to worse performance as the heads have to travel further.

Murzo · 10 Jul 2009 at 16:33

First of all i knew i spelt partition wrong lol

. I did not know that about partitioning a HDD, can i re-partition it to just two via the disk management, its pretty new install so there is nothing on the other partitions at the moment.

IAmATeaf · 10 Jul 2009 at 20:07

If they are empty then yes, just select each partition in turn and right-click and delete, then create the required partitions by right-clicking the free area of the disk. Make sure you select the correct partitions as Windows won't warn or care if there's any data, if the partitions not being used ie has any files open it will just get rid of it.

lopkinfop · 10 Jul 2009 at 22:53

a 1tb disc will typically be 931gb. i am unsure if you 'lose' any space with additional partitions

JonJ678 · 11 Jul 2009 at 03:50

Shouldn't lose any space, partition data is stored on the first 386kb of the disk iirc.

Be aware that computers think in base two, advertisments in base 10. My 750gb drives partition to a single 698gb volume. Drives come with a note saying available capacity will vary with formatting, but it doesn't vary by this much. Somewhat misleading. Points to ocz for naming their ssds to match actual capacity.