Deleting Partitions

[mandarinq]

Hey Everyone,

I have two 250gb internal hard drives in my computer that have gotten endlessly messed up. So I deleted everything from both of them and decided to repartition them in smaller partitions in hope that Windows will be able to handle them better.

So, in the Manage Drives window I right clicked on each of the drives and selected "Delete Partition." Well, both of them went down to 128gb of unallocated space!! What the hell happened? I lost over 100gb of capacity on each drive! Anyone know what could be the problem here, and how I can restore all of the space?

Thanks

[catgate]

What sort of partitions are they? Are they DOS partitions or logical partitions?

[Scarecrow Man]

You will have to create new partitions, and format them. Format the new partitions with FAT32 (or NTFS if your using Windows 2k or Windows XP)

[Guest be@vis]

I had the same problem when I decided to re-incorporate a little used partition back into the main partition. If you go into Disc Management you may find that the partitions have been recognised, but as used space, rather than free space. Scarecrow Man's advice might do the trick - in my own case the only thing that worked was to re-incorporate all the partitions into one, reformat the entire drive and start afresh.

[D4\/!d]

Format the new partitions

I agree. I once found that the partition software could "see" the partition, but nothing else could. What I needed to do to correct things was format the partition. :rolleyes:

[rong]

Buy Partition Magic then you can do anything, resise, delete.

[Scarecrow Man]

Format the new partitions

I agree. I once found that the partition software could "see" the partition, but nothing else could. What I needed to do to correct things was format the partition. :rolleyes:

Yea it's a pretty important part of Windows being able to read it. :) I'm pretty sure you HAVE to format the partition after deleting and creating it.