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The Age Old Partition Question...
I have had my Dell XPS 8700 for about two weeks, just long enough to get myself into a little trouble.
It came with a 2TB hard drive, and of course the space was almost all in a huge partition where Windows 7 Pro is installed. I managed to reduce this partition to about 200GB (still 70% unused). I also created a "Shared Data" volume of 10GB.
Disk Management say the following:
Unlabeled 39MB (Healthy, OEM Partition)
RECOVERY 24.67GB NTFS (Healthy, System, Active, Primary Partition)
OS 195.32GB (Healthy, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
SHARED DATA 10.00GB (Healthy, Logical Partition)
Unlabeled 1632.99GB Unallocated
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I wasn't thinking about primary vs logical at all when I created SHARED DATA, but evidently Windows Disk Management was. I tried to create a partition in the unallocated space, and was told I already had four primaries.
So now I have four primary partitions allocated, and want more logical partitions. The Extended Partition which contains my Logical is full. Can I simply resize it upward to gain space to create more logical partitions, or will the logical grow when I resize? Does anyone have a step at a time procedure I can use?
Thanks,
Colin
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August 20th, 2013 17:00
EaseUS is a free tool that a lot of people like. I'd check into that.
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August 19th, 2013 16:00
Colin,
I see two primary and one logical. But the recovery partition is not accessible. So you actually only have one primary and one logical.
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August 19th, 2013 17:00
Osprey,
Thanks for your reply.
I called the first partition Primary based on the color assigned to it in Windows 7's Disk Management tool. When I told Disk Management to create another partition, it told me quite clearly that I had four partitions, and I was done.
I verified the partition layout using a tool named DFSee. It shows the following:
+---+--+-----------------+--+--------+--------+-----------+----------+---------+
|ID |Dr|Type, description|ux|Format |Related |VolumeLabel| Sectors | Size MiB|
+-- -------+--------+---------- --------+
|01 | |Prim de DELL-Util| 1|FAT16 |DELL 4.1|DellUtility| 13986 | 39.2|
|02 | |FreeSpace Wasted | |-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -| 63b | 0.8|
|02>| |Prim 07 Inst-FSys| 2|NTFS |Win NT |RECOVERY | 3155000 | 25258.0|
|03 |C:|Prim 07 Inst-FSys| 3|NTFS |Win NT |OS |186a21b2 | 200004.2|
|04 |E:|Log 0b FAT32 | 5|FAT32 |MSDOS5.0|SHARED DATA| 3c02ece | 30725.9|
|05 | |FreeSpace Logical| |-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -|c99f8548 |1651696.7|
+---+--+-----------------+--+--------+--------+-----------+----------+---------+
I think my real question is how I can find a tool that lets me create and manage an extended partition,
so that I can then create and manage multiple logical partitions. If I need to use something other than
the native Windows 7 tool, I can do that.
ColinM_Campbell
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August 20th, 2013 18:00
OK, thanks!