Partition on drive minus drive letter

C_Ronaldo

When i installed my new hard drive i craeted a partition on it, a partition of 15gb and 450 gb, the 15gb was meant to be for the os plus other small programs but for some reason the 450gb hasnt got a drive letter and there isnt much left of the 15gb, is it easy to solve peeps, shoudl a drive letter been assigned when i created the partition

rdpro

sounds like all you did was create a 15Gb partition and left the rest unpartitioned - open the console as above, click your new drive, then select the 'unpartitioned space' - a rightclick should give 'create partition..' Max it out and format

C_Ronaldo

rdpro wrote: »

sounds like all you did was create a 15Gb partition and left the rest unpartitioned - open the console as above, click your new drive, then select the 'unpartitioned space' - a rightclick should give 'create partition..' Max it out and format

yes thats what i did, i tried to format it but as there was 450.76 still to be partitioned i had to split it into 2 different partitions, 1 at 450gb and the other at 777mb,

vyseyboy

Also, if you are looking to resize the partitions to get more than 15Gb for the OS, or are managing partitions in the future, a good place to start is with a Gparted boot CD:

http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

You'd boot to this instead of windows, and then tinker around, resize etc. to you hearts content.

It claims to be lossless, but I'd make fresh back ups first if I were you, make sure you know what you're doing, and pray that there isn't a power cut halfway through, (it can take a while.)

Conor_3

You should have assigned it a drive letter when you partitioned it.

Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Manager. Right click on the partition and select "Add/Change Drive Letter".

C_Ronaldo

Conor wrote: »

You should have assigned it a drive letter when you partitioned it.

Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Manager. Right click on the partition and select "Add/Change Drive Letter".

conor ive sorted it, for some reason when i set up the 15gb partition it didnt ask me to assign a drive letter for the remainder of the drive

Conor_3

LOL. Good old windows, eh? Glad you've got it sorted.