Free space
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 by Richard Mohler | Discussion: Windows Vista
I shrank the space on my hard drive to make another partition to put windows 7 R.C on. Do I just delete partition in october when windows 7 is delivered & will space go back to drive c where it came from? I have 50 gb's on partition and shrank it by 10gb's just to see what would happen, now it says I have 10gb's of free space.. How do I get back to drive c? Let me know, thanks..
Reply #3 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:38 PM
You must re-allocate the space in c:...you can use a free partition software like Gparted, it is safe and you don't loose any data 
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:39 PM
Right click on your Computer icon in the start menu and click on manage. This will open up your Computer Manager. Under storage you will find disk management. In the example below you will see that "extend volume" is grayed out since it is already at it's max size.
Reply #5 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:13 PM
I tried just deleting the partition but now it just says free space and on drive c there is no option other than to shrink volume..
Reply #6 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:32 PM
Are you in disk manager? Can you take a screen shot and post it?
Reply #7 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:59 PM
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Reply #8 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:26 PM
Left click and highlight the Free Space than you should be able to use the extend volumn as CarGuy said.
Reply #9 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:30 PM
Richard...you aren't on 'drive C' as such...it's the 'new volume' partition you need to right-click to expand.
You sure have a lot of partitions on the one physical drive....
Reply #10 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:31 PM
just curious why you have a logical drive set up as "A"....... I would expect that to cause a few issues with older software which expect A & B to be floppy drives.......
Reply #11 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:34 PM
If you want to expand C partition you'll need to move 'new volume' fist....to get the free space between it and C.
Don't attempt resizing 'c' without first backing up important work/files first. If there is a power outage during the resize it won't go well with success.
Reply #12 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:49 PM
Lantec--just the letter it chose when I did it, so I went with it, didn't even think about it.... Never did this before so this is a first..Jafo--I had one drive before doing this and that was c. d is just some kind of backup. So in october when I get windows 7 can I just delete new volume A and then expand C? In the meantime I can expand a to put the 10gb's free space back on it...What I'm asking is when I delete volume A (in october when 7 arrives) should I be able to expand C?
Reply #13 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:08 PM
Yes
Reply #14 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:26 PM
Myself, I've always wanted to use those drive assignments for hard drives since I've always hated floppies.
I've used A & B for hard drives assignments since I started running a 64 bit version of Windows.
The last software I used that looked for those drive letters to be floppies was 16 bit, which will not run in 64 bit Windows.
Funny, I just checked and I loaded my first version of 64 bit Windows exactly 4 years ago to the day. Haven't regreted it yet. One things for sure, driver support sure has gotten better.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:35 PM
When ever you want to reclaim that space to your C drive you can open the Windows disk manager, delete the 10 gig partition and then you can right click on your C drive and extend the volume to the full size of the disk.