Ya but unfortunatly it seems you gave me incorrect information.  When I delete the logical drive so I am able to make the partition bigger it will not allow me to go any bigger than what was there before.  After deletion it gives the space as free space.  The unused portion of the drive is still unallocated (and cannot be combined with the deleted partition.  Deleting the partion only created free space in exactly the same size partition that was deleted. 

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@skmerrow wrote:

I just installed a new 160GB maxtor HD and patitioned it using the maxblast software.  This is my partitions

 

DSK1_Programs (C: (20GB) Contains OS and programs
DSK2_Documents (D (48GB) Contains my documents
DSK3_Media (E: (67GB) Contains Itunes and photos

When I view the disk in disk management I still have 17+GB of unallocated space.  When I try to create another logical drive it tells me I must create it as a primary partition.  I thought you could only have one primary partition (which I assume is where my OS is).

I am thinking now I should have just made 2 partitions one primary and one extended and later broken down the drive into logical drives?????

 

Any ideas

 

Answered via email you sent me.

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@skmerrow wrote:

Ya but unfortunatly it seems you gave me incorrect information.  When I delete the logical drive so I am able to make the partition bigger it will not allow me to go any bigger than what was there before.  After deletion it gives the space as free space.  The unused portion of the drive is still unallocated (and cannot be combined with the deleted partition.  Deleting the partion only created free space in exactly the same size partition that was deleted. 

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I didn't give you incorrect info.

You need to change the free space to UNALLOCATED I believe, then allocate the entire space to one partition, then format it.  If it won't do that in Disk Management then it's due to your using the Maxtor software to begin with.