more hdrive space needed (got it but can,t use it)?

Question

i have found out in computer managment that one drive is set at 7.83gb with 8.2gb unallocated (boot)... and on the other 7.83gb used with 30.42 unallocated .....how do i get the free space onto the drives using the computer managment window (or any other way if its easier)

Answer 1

well the best way to do it would be when installing windows the system drives have been formatted smaller that the total capacity so that space is just lying around spare its not a part of your storage partitions

i recommend that you should take it to your local place where they install computer software and stuff and tell them about it..it will only take 15 or 20 minutes and you will be able to use the space thats just lying around....

and by lying around i mean this


suppose your hard disk is 80 gb

you have 20 in c
you have 20 in d
you have 20 in e

and the rest of the 20 gb is un formatted so itsn not a partition and its not calculated to be included in the 3 drives you already made so thats just there it exsists but you cant use it and that 8.2 gb thats unallocated thats for the systems boot sectors and stuff so that has to stay same you cant remove that...its gets cut out of the total disk space that 8.2 gb so you must format the partitions with whats left and then make sure theres no space just lying around....i would say the people who installed your operating system did the calculations wrong thats why space is just lying around and cant be used....i had the same problem once and it kept causing system failures and kept showing ntldr is missing and all kinds a krap so i would suggest you should show it to a software professional and let him fix it before you lose all your data on your system...and by formatting it you will not lose all your information if you let them increase the size of the drives u still havent used or have un important data on.

Answer 2

Are you using an older motherboard? Older machines had a hardware limit of about 8 GB therefore your drives must be smaller than that limit. The limit can be in your computer, in the setting for the drives, or some drives have a jumper to impose an 8GB limit. There are several ways around the limit. If the problem is an old motherboard it simply doesn't have the data lines to address more than 8GB at a time. You can work around it by creating LOGICAL drives on your computer using disk management. This is the least expensive option. The problem is that every 8GB needs to be made into a new drive with a new letter.

Another suggestion is to purchase a hard drive controller card which will have an up to date bios and be able to address all the space on your drive as one drive. This is the moderate cost option.

Finally you can update your hardware (hard drives, computer, etc.) but this can be costly.

What you have is a 15 or 20GB hard drive as your system drive, and a 40GB drive as your data drive. Any modern system should be able to see the total size of your drives. HOWEVER some operating systems (like DOS or older versions of NET WARE) were not written to address the larger drives. The current limit is around 550GB but Win 64 and Vista can handle up to 4TB or 4,000GB.