Partition not visible after parting C-drive!!

[gary130776]

Hello all.

Desperately need some help.

I bought a PCG-71211M series notebook last year. It has always been a bit slow to boot. Not something one would expect froma new laptop. A friend suggested that I should partition the primary C drive.

Since the C-Drive was so large(500 GB) the system took longer to boot.

So finally I did get into the disk management via the control panel and shrunk the drive and split it into two.

I expected the system to show me one more drive on the screen.

What it shows is:

1)recovery partition

2)system partition

3)C-drive(253 GB)

4) Unallocated(199 GB)

My question is ,why is this showing as unallocated and why not as a new drive such as F or G drive.

Please advise where I have gone wrong!!!

Thanking all in anticipation.

Best regards

Gary

Message was edited by: gary130776

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[rich912 · Accepted solution]

Hi Garry,

You need to create a new simple volume for the unallocated space. Have a look at this guide.

http://www.techtipsgeek.com/partitioning-hard-drive-windows-7-without-formatting/5140/

Rich

[nikkilim]

Basically, you just need to intruct your notebook to recognize the extra space as Drive d. As soon as this is done, you should be good to go.

Good luck.

[rich912]

nikkilim wrote:

Basically, you just need to intruct your notebook to recognize the extra space as Drive d. As soon as this is done, you should be good to go.

Good luck.

And if instructing the notebook in a normal tone of voice doesn’t work then try shouting:smileywink: