Help regarding HDD Partition

[Kiran.dks]

Guys, I really need some quick help regarding HDD Partition. I have a Basic HDD of 74.5GB on my HP Pavilion Lappy. It came with a FAT Partition of 9.1GB in which the HP Recovery Console is dedicated. My aim is to partition C drive into 2 more partitions...
Below is the snap-shot of the drive in Paragon Partition Manager.



In the image, I understand that the second entry named as {unallocated} is set by Windows by default of size 7.8MB.

But I have a doubt regarding 4th entry of 1GB size. Wht is that? Partition manager says it is unformatted. Can format it to NTFS and merge it with C drive?

And when I click C-drive for partitioning, I get message as.....
"A new partition cannot be created on this hard disk. Most probably, all primary slots are occupied and there is no extended partition."



I have taken a snap shot of the Windows Logical Drive status too for your assistance.



I have not done enough of partition earlier. Hence I cannot make any R & D on this issue, otherwise I may screw up my system.

[EDIT]: Problem at last solved by doing some R & D only! ...

[abhijangda]

Hey friend why do you want to merge c: with it 1 gb you should decrease it size. The only way to do that is to reinstall your windows. You can make a recovery cd through your hp recovery drive by just searching in google. Reinstall your windows then do partitioning by xp bootable cd partition manger. Post your result here.

[Goten]

Actually I have observed that 6 month back in my hp laptop 7months back when i bought it.

Dunno wats that 1gb for.

Although u can make more partitio by using partition magic I guess. My fren has HP DV5200 n I have the same. He says he has done it once using partition magic.

Peace~~~!

[azad]

use partition magic...

[Kiran.dks]

Ok guys, Seeing almost no responses with solution, I decided to have a go and find out what exactly that 1GB is meant for....
Finally I have just now finished all the things perfectly....

1. I opened Paragon Partition Manager under normal Windows mode and formatted that 1GB partition to NTFS and set it to "Not Hide" and runned the process. After the process I saw a new drive in the explorer with 1GB. I just couldn't merge nor increase the size of this partition. Don't know what was it??

2. I opened Paragon Partition Manager under normal Windows mode and burnt a "Recovery Media Builder", which is nothing but a CD bootable Partition manager.

3. Then restarted the computer bootable with the same CD. Now I partitioned the C:\ Drive into 2 parts viz. 14.2GB system drive and remaining 50.1 GB to another partition.

4. Now I deleted the 1GB partition and further partitioned the 50.1GB drive to 2 more parts viz. 25GB and 26GB partitioned.

5. After restart, my HDD has a linear structure without any hidden drives nor any useless partitions. Here is a snap-shot after all this process....

[s18000rpm]

oh sorry man, i missed this thread

but if there is a next time when you install XP (full recovery), do create Partitions as Extended Partitions, this way you can create more than 4 partitions.

[harikatt]

good kiran tech mania,, very nice,, solved your selfs.....

[Kiran.dks]

To abhijangda: There is no need to reinstall Windows for creating partitions! Just create a bootable CD from Partition tools and use it to create partitions.

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

oh sorry man, i missed this thread
but if there is a next time when you install XP (full recovery), do create Partitions as Extended Partitions, this way you can create more than 4 partitions.

It's Ok dude.
Ya, I know about 'extended partitions'. But my effective HDD is only 64.3GB. So 4 is more than enough dude.

Originally Posted by harikatt

good kiran tech mania,, very nice,, solved your selfs.....