1.) Go back into Disk Management, select the unallocated space, right-click it, and choose to create a simple volume of it. The wizard will guide you through the process of re-creating the D: drive, this time letting you use it for additional storage, of music files for instance.
2.) Use partitioning software such as Partition Magic to recreate a partition of the unpartitioned space and then merge the two partitions. This entails some risk of data loss/corruption and can be costly.
3.) Use the recovery disks to reformat the entire hard drive and reinstall the OS. It's free and accomplishes exactly what you want, but it's time consuming and forces you to start from scratch again, losing all files and installed programs.
The choice is yours, which ever you think is the most viable.
John
Hi,
I have a question? I just bought a new gateway media center desktop pc. The model number is GM5442 the serial number is CCW73-710-06206 The computer is great! It has an intel core 2 duo 2gig in it. a 500 gig sata hard drive with a 16 meg buffer 7200 rpm's Raid compatable. 2 gigs of ddr 2 memory dual channel. Onboard sound which has been disabled for a stand alone sound card onboard intel media video which uses shared memory and not dedicated. Well my problem that gateway does imaging and my system comes with a d drive known as a recovery drive. so Gateway images the entire contents of the operating system and everything else and stores it on to the recovery drive or d drive. Now my question is how do I repartion that recovery drive so that I can have that 9.42 gigs of space back on the c drive so that I can use it again and not have it left for the recovery drive to use. Yes I have a restore cd that was sent to me from gateway that has all my rograms drivesr on it eveery thing that came with it when it left the factory including the recovery drive. What I did was I went into the control panel of Windows vista home premium edition. I went to Administrative tools storage and then disk managment. I either formated the recovery drive first. then deleted it or just the opposite but either way it now shows up as unallocated space which means that the hard drive space is just sitting there not being used. So I'm wondering how I can allocate that free space again but now have it on my c drive so that I can use it when ever I want for whatever I want and it does not have to be for any recovery drive because that will stay deleted. I tried to do a shrink but it did not work. The d drive recovery drive is now deleted it does not show up when I click on my computer any more, but the unallocated free space is still there not being used by the d drive or by the c drive because it is unallocated. Do you think maybe I have to use the windows vista cd that came with my computer

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