partitions

[jyeh74]

I have two internal hard drives. One is like 70 GB and the other is like 100 GB. I reformatted my computer and deleted both partitions. Now there is only the 70GB, but the D: drive of 100 GB hard drive is no where to be found. What happened?

[guns1inger]

Right-click on My Computer and then click on Manage.
Make sure the Storage branch is expanded, and click on Disk Management.

Do you see your 100 GB drive here ?
If so, what does it say about it ?

Why did you delete the partitions ?

[jyeh74]

Under VOLUME, I only see the 74GB HD (it is drive C/disk 0). Disc 1 is my 100 GB HD. It is "unallocated".

I thought you are suppose to delete partitions whenver you want to reformat. I do not know why the 100GB is not showing up.

[jyeh74]

Am I suppose to right click and go NEW PARTITION? "Primary partition" or "extended partition".....then it asks "partition size in MB" which is currently defaulted at 114471MB.....not sure about what this is.

My minimum disk space is 8MB.
My maximum disk space is 11447MB.

[Dv8ted2]

It is saying unallocated because there is no partition on the drive in question. You must create a partition, format the partition and assign it a drive letter.

[johns0]

Choose Primary partition.

[jyeh74]

johns0, what is extended partition mean? I already have the 70GB HD set at drive C.

What should I set the partition size to? What does this mean?

[ocgw]

johns0, what is extended partition mean? I already have the 70GB HD set at drive C.

What should I set the partition size to? What does this mean?

you can have up to 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions an 1 extended partition, an extended partiton can have several "logical drives"

I usually send "My Documents" to another partition other than c:, that way I can completely trash my OS and my data is safe even if I haven't backed it up yet

ocgw

peace

[johns0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning

[jyeh74]

How do I know what size to set the partition to?

[johns0]

Set it to the maximum size allowed.

[jyeh74]

that is just asking me how much of the space I want to utilize? thanks!