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April 23rd, 2008 19:00
Partition error.
hii,
i hav this xps M1330 notebook with 320gb hdd , 4 gb ram, wind. vista, and nvidia graphic card. i opened up disk management and shrinked my c: drive. this created two partition , one c: with 161gb space & other one with 124gb went into unallocated space. i then tried to create new simple volume out of this unallocated space by formating it with NTFS using the same disc management. but it showed error that there is not enuf space to perform operation. so please tell me wat to do. how to format these unallocated spaces
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Thanks and regards
Sri
@ejn63 wrote:
The drive already has four partitions on it, so you cannot add another without removing one of the existing ones.
Only partially true.True: There can not be more than four primary partitions. Also true: There can not be more than three primary partitions in case an extended partition is present (the extended one eats one of the four primary partition slots)False: You can not add one. You can certainly add a logical partition. I've done that myself. Just Windows Vista's partitioning application is just not smart enough.Your partitioning looks something like this:1. Dell Utility (primary)2. Dell Recovery (primary)3. Vista (primary)4. MediaDirect (logical)If you shrink 3. Vista, than you can use this free space to add a logical one. Use a partitioning application of your choice except the one included in Vista. I suggesthttp://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.phpIt's fee and graphical. In the first Menu press later on the numbers corresponding to your keyboard and you should end up in a graphical tool to manipulate your partitioning.
@ejn63 wrote:
You will need to decide which to remove - the utility partition is too small to use, and may be needed. That leaves the Media Direct partition or the restore partition - the latter is the least useful, so you may as well remove it.
You have 53132 posts. What did you do all the time?I would NOT recommend to remove partitions unless you REALLY REALLY know what you are doing. Google for "self destruct button dell".Nowhere I have read how MD 3.x (not MD 2.x!) exactly works. In fact it swaps the partitiontable entries (The Dell Utility gets replaced by the Dell MD partition in order to boot MD - that is known). There exists a copy of the MBR containing the partition table in sector 16 of the MD partition. What seems to happen to many people: Alter your partitions and you partition setup get's restored if you press MD button by accident by some OLD state resulting in total data loss (google for "testdisk" - this one will help you and is in fact included in the GParted LiveCD; or press MD button a second time from the Laptop Power-off state - this helped many).Unless somebody is able to tell exactly how the MD 3.x boot procedure works, I would not recommand deleting primary partitions at all. You can fiddle with the logical partitions in the extended partition just fine (those are not stored in the partition table in the MBR).regards,7oby
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Posted April 23rd, 2008 19:00
The drive already has four partitions on it, so you cannot add another without removing one of the existing ones.
You will need to decide which to remove - the utility partition is too small to use, and may be needed. That leaves the Media Direct partition or the restore partition - the latter is the least useful, so you may as well remove it.