Getting back hard drive space.

PeteHerts

Hello everyone and thank you in advance for any help given.
I've got a Sony laptop with 120gb hard drive. It was running on Vista 32-bit when I first got it and it showed 102gb and then around 9.8gb which I assume is back up to restore from (not sure if I would lose 9gb even with the mb to gb conversion).
Anyway I formatted the hard drive and then put on Vista 64-bit. It was still showing as 102gb but now when I look at disk managent it says I have 9.78gb spare as a EISA Configuration and I was wondering if there was anyone I could get that back to add to the 102gb.
Cheers.
Pete.

totalsolutions

Hi Reading between the lines are you looking at the unused areas of the drive after the format? This is normally lost due to the little biddy bit left after the overhead for storage. You can set it as another drive and format it.

PeteHerts

It was Sony's recovery partition and I found out that by using Diskpart I could delete the partition and once I rebooted I could then format and assign it a drive letter so I now have an extra 9.70gb.
It would have been nice to intergrate it into C drive but seeing as I've not long upgraded then I may do a format and clean install again.

BillScarab

You should be able to merge partitions. Alternatively if you delete the new partition you shoul dbe able to extend the original one. You can certainly do this sort of thing in commercial disc partitioning software and I though Vista had it built in.

Here you go, no need to re-install

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/

PeteHerts

BillScarab wrote: »

You should be able to merge partitions. Alternatively if you delete the new partition you shoul dbe able to extend the original one. You can certainly do this sort of thing in commercial disc partitioning software and I though Vista had it built in.

Here you go, no need to re-install

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/

Hello and thanks for the advice.
I tried to extend but its greyed out and I cannot seem to find an how to on that from your link.

BillScarab

Did you delete the small partition first? It will need free space to exntend into so if it is occupied by a patition alreayd I would expect it to be greyed out.

PeteHerts

BillScarab wrote: »

Did you delete the small partition first? It will need free space to exntend into so if it is occupied by a patition alreayd I would expect it to be greyed out.

Yep deleted the 9.7gb one first then checked C to extend but was greyed out so I come out and went make in to disk management and even rescanned but still greyed out.
The only option C gives me is to shrink.

mattmoo_2

partition magic lets you do this although i am not sure if it works with Vista, i would imagine it does and in either case you can probably boot in dos and do it that way

Matt