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Shrinked volume on WIN 7 disappears after reinstallation

by alabedekenny Feb 13, 2011 5:09PM PST

Hi all,

I need a solution to a problem with my HP Laptop.

I just bought the Laptop with Windows Vista Business, but I upgraded to Windows 7 ultimate.

Then I partitioned the 250G hard drive to install another OS on the new Partition. I used System Management to shrink 80G from the 222G available, but I have not installed anything on the new partition before the Windows 7 had problem, so I had to use HP system recovery to restore the PC back to factory default. After restoring, I installed windows 7 again and it worked properly. I later wanted to shrink 80G again as I did before, but I couldn't. Though the Hard Disk properties showed that the Disk is 222G, I could not shrink more than 9G, despite having more than 100G free space.

It seems as if the system did cot recover the Hard drive to its original state. Please someone help me out. I need to partition/shrink up to 80G from the 115G remaining, but the system is giving me only 9G plus available to shrink/partition. Please help me out

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No real ideas from me
by MarkFlax Forum moderator Feb 13, 2011 8:11PM PST

but are you sure that the original partition you created isn't still there?

What does Disk management show? I know that OEM system recovery procedures is supposed to return the system to factory conditions, but I am surprised it deleted all partitions, reformatted, and then installed Vista onto the single remaining partition.

Also I don't understand your math. Your hdd is 250 GB, but you mention 222 GB, 80 GB, 115 GB, and so on. I'm not sure where all these come from.

Hopefully others here will have some ideas.

Mark

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Re-do
by samkh Feb 13, 2011 9:43PM PST

your W7 installation. When you get to upgrade or custom screen, select custom and delete all partitions on the drive. Then proceed with W7 installation. You should then be able to shrink the C:\ by 80GB. Also since you got Ultimate, make sure you don't encrypt any files before shrinking.

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The Microsoft tools for this
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 13, 2011 10:46PM PST

Are not that good. To fix this you will either buy a copy of Partition Magic or just do the clean install of Windows 7.

Yes, someone may not GPARTED but that may be more advanced that some would use.
Bob

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You need a partitioning manager to do that...
by BlackBart1955 Feb 14, 2011 1:26PM PST
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