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Pepperlizard

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I'm new to setting up and allocating HDDs, and for reasons that I'm not going to go into for the sake of time I installed Windows 7 Professional over Windows 7 Ultimate. In order to get my second HDD up and going I knew that I had to allocate it (that might not be the right term). However because there are already files on the HDD, I can't seem to allocate it in a way that will prevent me from having a full 72Gb disk and an empty 859Gb disk. Its the same HDD, however I can't seem to figure out how to allocate the empty 800+ Gbs of space with the 72 full Gbs of space. Can anyone help me with this? (sorry if this is confusing, I'm not sure how exactly how to explain this).

Its Disk 0 that is having this problem by the way.

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I'm confused as to what you want to do. Are you looking to expand the 72GB partition to fit the entire drive?

I prefer not to do expansions in Windows. Download a copy of Parted Magic and use GParted to expand the partition across the entire drive.
 
Partion 2 on disk 0, will not show up because it`s unallocated, in other words it is not formatted in any file system so windows can`t see it.

As suggested above don`t use windows use a dedicated partion tool and either backup the data in partion 1 on disk 0, then format the whole drive into one partion.

Or format partion 2 on disk 0 to ntfs file system, then expand the first all the way up.
 
jamesd1981 said:
Partion 2 on disk 0, will not show up because it`s unallocated, in other words it is not formatted in any file system so windows can`t see it.

As suggested above don`t use windows use a dedicated partion tool and either backup the data in partion 1 on disk 0, then format the whole drive into one partion.

Or format partion 2 on disk 0 to ntfs file system, then expand the first all the way up.
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In GParted you can just expand the partition through the unallocated space. No need to do anything other than that.
 
Ok, so I download Gparted and I can't figure out how to run the program. I download the gParted ISO file and I can't run it using Daemon tools lite, I can only open its contents and there is no executable file in the folders that I can find. Can someone help me out here?
 
Pepperlizard said:
Ok, so I download Gparted and I can't figure out how to run the program. I download the gParted ISO file and I can't run it using Daemon tools lite, I can only open its contents and there is no executable file in the folders that I can find. Can someone help me out here?
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Burn it to a CD and boot to that CD. It's a Linux based program, so you won't find any EXE's to run.
 
One last question before I do all of this, will allocating the full drive with the empty drive (its the same HDD) with this software running from the booted CD mess up anything with Windows or other aspects of my computer?
 
You'll just be extending the partition across the drive. There shouldn't be, but there is always some kind of risk of data loss (it's usually low though).
 
Do you have OS on the disk 0 first partition? if you do, I won't expand it if I were you. Because when time to reinstall windows it is a pain to backup a large partition. I suggest you just make a simple partition on the unallocated space use windows 7 disk management and formated it.
cheers.
 
paulcheung said:
Do you have OS on the disk 0 first partition? if you do, I won't expand it if I were you. Because when time to reinstall windows it is a pain to backup a large partition. I suggest you just make a simple partition on the unallocated space use windows 7 disk management and formated it.
cheers.
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That's why I'm having him use GParted to expand the partition. Then he won't have to reinstall Windows.
 
Thanks for those of you guys who pitched in on this one. I got the file burned to a disk and successfully re-sized the HDD with no problems what-so-ever.
 
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