Patitioning Problem

[Lumburg]

With your help, I solved the master/slave problem of my drives, but now i got another problem.

When i installed windows, I did the partitioning on my HD to 10 gb. Following the online site that helped me install windows.

But thats all i did. Now that i finished installing windows, windows only thinks that my 320 gb HD is only 10 GB.... how can i correct that?

 

[jeremy]

goto control panel-->administrative tools-->computer managment-->disk managment , from there youll be able to create extra partition/s from the unpartitioned space

but make sure you have service pack 1 or 2 installed before going for it

 

[Lumburg]

thanks Jeremy,

just 1 more question. It asks if I want to make my free space a Primary or extended Partition, which one should i use, since I only have this 1 Hard Drive and 10gb of it has been partitioned for windows. Id like the other 310gb for installing applications (e.g games and music)



thanks in advance

 

[jeremy]

basicly primary partitions are intended for installing operating system (you cant install an operating system on an extended partition) , extended partitions are intended for data storage so select extended

 

[Lumburg]

awesome, i just made it into a extended partition. it was pretty quick infact... just 1 click and bam, green. haha
thanks again jeremy.


oh, 1 more question. now that i extended it... how come the extra 300 gb doesnt show up when i check the free space of the c: drive?

also, i wanna know why computer automatically lhas my hd drive listed in "safely remove hardware" its connected via SATA.

whats a logical drive?

 

[KSoD]

Okay that was a good bit of advice but it doesnt show up under your C: drive since it is not a part of your C: drive. You have to format the partition in order to get it to show up.

Why you PC has your SATA as a removable device i dont know. I have 2 SATA HDD installed and neither one is listed. I think it might have something to do with the partition you just created.

Definitions of Logical Drive on the Web:

The partitioning or division of a large hard drive into smaller units. A single, large Physical Drive can be partitioned into two or more smaller Logical Drives.
www.pccomputernotes.com/pcterms/glossaryl.htm

The internal division of a large hard disk into smaller units. One single physical drive may be organized into several logical drives for convenience; DOS supports up to 23 logical drives on a system. On a single-floppy system, the disk drive can function as both logical drive A and logical drive B, depending on the exact circumstances.
www.angelfire.com/ny3/diGi8tech/LGlossary.html

Disk storage on a network server, represented logically by a name or letter to facilitate access from user workstations. The drive does not physically exist, but is treated as though it does.
www.courts.state.ny.us/ad4/lib/gloss.html

A disk drive that the operating system (OS) recognizes.
www.satellite-tv-hq.com/telecom-glossary-l.htm

In computer engineering, hard disk drive partitioning is the creation of logical divisions upon a hard disk that allows one to apply operating system-specific logical formatting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_drive

I have another way around this but it is long and drawn out. It will allow you to create more partitions but it does involve some work.

 

[jeremy]

1) as you might alredy know hd's come out of the factory without any partitions , you can have 1 partiton using all the available space or 2 or more partitions, you choosed to make more then 1 partition cuz you puted only 10gb when you created the first partition , and as alredy said by Makaveli213 its not a part of your c: cuz its another partition , anyway believe me its better this way put your important data on d:\ and when your windows will go bad and youll need to format your main partition (c you wont loose any data thats on the d:

2) its normal ,sata drives are hot plugable however you can hide the icon to do so go to start-->settings-->taskbar and start menu
tick "hide inactive icons" and click "customize" find "safely remove hardware" and set it to "always hide"

3) heres another definition http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/logical_drive.html

 

[Lumburg]

ok, i think i solved my problem. i extended the rest of the 300 gb and i made a logical drive from that 300 into my E: drive, im currently formating it, so i think i got it! thanks again guys.

 

[Lumburg]

ok

sorry for the double post, but i ran into anotehr problem.


i extended and made the extended 300 gb of my HD into logical so i can install my games/music into that "E:" drive instead of my partitioned "C:" drive.


but when i tried to select the E: drive for installation of Battlefield 2, the installer told me that it was unsafe, so i opted to then install it in my C: drive...

now i just tried to move all my BF2 files to my e: drive manually. I did so. Now i moved the patch to the e: drive too and tried to install the patch, but it told me that I have too little memory for it, like i need 2000 mb to do it, but the drive is over 250gb!! what gives?

 

[jeremy]

thats ridicules ,what was the exact message do you recall?
anyway i suggest youll move it back to where it was and uninstall and reinstall on the e: drive its not only files it also uses the registry and it might have something to do with that error