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Unallocated Space!!

13 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/unallocated-space.181496/

ShankJ
ShankJ Original post #1
Feb 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM
I recently restored my laptop and kinda botched up the process.. Now i have a 570 GB C drive.. Whenever i shrink the C drive, the unallocated space created gives an error on trying to make it into a new system volume..
i need to convert the unallocated space into new volume coz i just cant work with one drive..

Error on trying to create a new system volume from unallocated space-
'Dynamic discs are not supported by this OS or server config. Dynamic discs are not supported on clusters'

Is there any software that would help me through this..
(Note- I also have to retrieve the data that was lost during the restoration)
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whitestar_999 #2
Feb 19, 2014 at 1:06 PM
welcome to the common problem of basic disk converting to dynamic disk when shrinking drives using windows 7 disk management.download & install easeus partition master home free edition to convert dynamic disk back to basic disk.also in future do not use windows 7 disk management to change partition size.
Download EaseUS Partition Master Free 9.3 - FileHippo.com
ShankJ
ShankJ #3
Feb 19, 2014 at 7:05 PM
whitestar_999 said:
welcome to the common problem of basic disk converting to dynamic disk when shrinking drives using windows 7 disk management.download & install easeus partition master home free edition to convert dynamic disk back to basic disk.also in future do not use windows 7 disk management to change partition size.
Download EaseUS Partition Master Free 9.3 - FileHippo.com
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thanks a lot..
and to retrieve the data, should go with Recuva or is there any better option??
dashing.sujay
dashing.sujay #4
Feb 19, 2014 at 7:22 PM
Recuva is very good. Don't know of any alternative being that good, and free, of course.
lywyre
lywyre #5
Feb 19, 2014 at 7:23 PM
+1 for Recuva. If it does not work you can try GetDataBack for NTFS (It is paid though).
ShankJ
ShankJ #6
Feb 23, 2014 at 11:33 PM
whitestar_999 said:
welcome to the common problem of basic disk converting to dynamic disk when shrinking drives using windows 7 disk management.download & install easeus partition master home free edition to convert dynamic disk back to basic disk.also in future do not use windows 7 disk management to change partition size.
Download EaseUS Partition Master Free 9.3 - FileHippo.com
Click to expand...

I tried Easeus partition but on pressing the create button after selecting the unallocated space of 350 GB which is of the type Logical, it shows a warning- "Please convert an existing primary partition to logical partition and truly again!!

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whitestar_999 said:
welcome to the common problem of basic disk converting to dynamic disk when shrinking drives using windows 7 disk management.download & install easeus partition master home free edition to convert dynamic disk back to basic disk.also in future do not use windows 7 disk management to change partition size.
Download EaseUS Partition Master Free 9.3 - FileHippo.com
Click to expand...

I tried Easeus partition but on pressing the create button after selecting the unallocated space of 350 GB which is of the type Logical, it shows a warning- "Please convert an existing primary partition to logical partition and truly again!!
dashing.sujay
dashing.sujay #7
Feb 24, 2014 at 1:42 AM
Post disk mgmt screenie.
Genius-jatt
Genius-jatt #8
Mar 7, 2014 at 10:52 PM
Dear friends I also had some what same problem of UNMOUNTED SPACE or Disk ?

The issue is that I had a 500GB HDD WD make & it has 4 partition ,The window-7 has some issue after using a year, I decided to install window-7 again, Now start installation and when it goes to Format section, I usually do QUICK FORMAT but this time I do Full Format of C drive, after Format it give a massage of Unmounted Disk with space of 480 GB of space ? I was shock ?

Please friends help if you can , Is it possible to save data to recover from this kind of crash ?

Secondly how to save HDD and re install its partitions etc ?
dashing.sujay
dashing.sujay #9
Mar 8, 2014 at 12:21 AM
How did you do "quick/full" format ?
dashing.sujay
dashing.sujay #11
Mar 9, 2014 at 3:18 AM
Why did you format with XP media when you had to install 7 ?

Genius-jatt said:
Please friends help if you can , Is it possible to save data to recover from this kind of crash ?

Secondly how to save HDD and re install its partitions etc ?
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For recovery use recuva. But save recovered data on another hard disk to increase recovery chances.

And what do you mean by save HDD ? Reinstalling partitions can be easily done while installing any OS.
Genius-jatt
Genius-jatt #12
Mar 21, 2014 at 5:00 PM
dashing.sujay said:
Why did you format with XP media when you had to install 7 ?



For recovery use recuva. But save recovered data on another hard disk to increase recovery chances.

And what do you mean by save HDD ? Reinstalling partitions can be easily done while installing any OS.
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Thanks and pl give me the link of recobering soft: recuva
dashing.sujay
dashing.sujay #13
Mar 21, 2014 at 8:33 PM
Genius-jatt said:
Thanks and pl give me the link of recobering soft: recuva
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Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download

A google would have done that work for you.