[rgreen4]

Smax - thank's for that tip. This new forum, is almost like Vista and Office 2007. At first the magnitute of the change overwhelms, but the graphics are cleaner and the power starts to become evident. Once we get past the learning curve, we'll wonder how we ever got along without it.

[smax013]

rgreen4 said:

Smax - thank's for that tip. This new forum, is almost like Vista and Office 2007. At first the magnitute of the change overwhelms, but the graphics are cleaner and the power starts to become evident. Once we get past the learning curve, we'll wonder how we ever got along without it.

The jury is still out on how much I like it. The lack of a good way (for me at least) of seeing which posts are new is kind of a pain for how I use the forum. I kind of a way to work, but it is kind of a little inconvient. My only other gripe at this point is that it is kind of slow...all the added graphics and web apps seems to slow stuff down as they have to load...I guess in that sense, maybe it is like Vista! :^0

I agree that it will likely grow on me. I can say that after using the PCWorld forums, I did not like the MacWorld forum software, but it has grown on me. So, I guess this new forum software will grow on me as well.

[mphenterprises]

I started to feel comfortable with it within the first few minutes. However, the new post issue is a big one for me. Also, I do not see Private Message features.

[smax013]

mphenterprises said:

I started to feel comfortable with it within the first few minutes. However, the new post issue is a big one for me. Also, I do not see Private Message features.

I don't see PMs either. You might want to raise that issue with Kellie in the "Welcome" discussion.

[mphenterprises]

Spike already did. There may be a bug or something that is preventing the PMs from coming up.

[lilxkid24]

Il just keep the partition. I dont want to go through all the hassle of trying to get it back lol. But what should i put in it though. It has nothing in it right now lol.

[mphenterprises]

Well, that is completely up to you. I have just about 2 Terabytes of storage space. I still have not come up with full use for all of it. That is the beauty of space. If you have it, you can always use it....and more. :-)

Think of it like closet space. Some people only have a small closet. Some people have large closets. Some People have small Walk-In Closets. Some people have large Walk-In Closets. No matter how much space you have, it's good to know it is there.

[lilxkid24]

eh il just leave it empty lol i got nothing to put anyway i barely used 70gigs anyway

[rgreen4]

lilxkid - when I get to my machine, and have a chance to experiment on a non critical drive, the answer on how to recover the "free" space may be simple and not a hassel. I shrank my volume and expanded it back 3 time last night on drive 0 and once on drive 6. (Drive 0 is the boot drive, drive 1 is backups (temporarily in the PC), drive 6 is the PMD (USB) drive 2,3,4,5 are the removable drives from the card reader and drive 7 is the CD/DVD).

I think it has to do with you deleting the unallocated volume. If the volume were unallocated, it would be as simple as right clicking on C and then clicking on expand on the pull down menu. It takes a few seconds and its done.

I unfortunately have only Windows 2000 available to me during the day, so most detailed XP questions and almost all Vista questions have to wait until I can my hands on my machines.

[KellieCM]

Just a reminder to lilxkid24 to come back and award points for correct and helpful answers when your question has been answered. And thanks for trying out the new questions features, I hope they are helpful!

[lilxkid24]

i already did award the points lol

[rgreen4]

Lilxkid24 - You may have to live with it. I tried everything I could find. I could not convert either unallocated or formatted space to Free Space. I don't know how you managed to do it, so I don't know how to un-do it. As long as the space is unallocated, then the other volumes could be expanded. But the system apparently treats the "free space" as if it is a viable volume.

At this point, I'm not sure that even a system restore would work, as it would probably only recognize the allocated space and treat the Free Space as unavailable. I will continue researching as I get opportunities.

Since your machine is new, you might contact support. After all, you should have 1 year of support. If you get an answer post it for all of us.

[lilxkid24]

i dont mind the partition lol. I just did the partition then removed it and it become free space lol

[rgreen4]

Ok, after you made the partition, and it showed up as unallocated, do remember exactly how you deleted it? When you put the cursor on the unallocated space were you able to right click and then delete?

[smax013]

rgreen4 said:

Lilxkid24 - You may have to live with it. I tried everything I could find. I could not convert either unallocated or formatted space to Free Space. I don't know how you managed to do it, so I don't know how to un-do it. As long as the space is unallocated, then the other volumes could be expanded. But the system apparently treats the "free space" as if it is a viable volume.

At this point, I'm not sure that even a system restore would work, as it would probably only recognize the allocated space and treat the Free Space as unavailable. I will continue researching as I get opportunities.

Since your machine is new, you might contact support. After all, you should have 1 year of support. If you get an answer post it for all of us.

I would assume that the "free space" could be formatted (or something) to take it back to a full "lettered" drive partition (volume). I am thinking that it is considered an assigned "partition" but has just not been formatted so that it is an active volume. If Lilxkid24 can get it back to a full "lettered" partition, then you might be able to provide guidance to remove the partition to unallocated space that can then be "extended" into the C: partition.

[rgreen4]

Smax - in Vista's Disk Management, when you intially create the new partition it is classified as "unallocated". An unallocated volume many then be formatted, after which a volume letter is assigned and it is considered active. An active volume can be "deleted" which erases any data and reclassifies the volume as "unallocated"
Other volumes can be "expanded" to take up a part or all of the unallocated space. The problem is that somehow lilxkid got the space classifed as Free Space and it will not allow him to format the space nor expand the adjacent volume to occupy that "Free Space".
This one may have to be referred to Bill's experts in Redmon. :D

[smax013]

rgreen4 said:

Smax - in Vista's Disk Management, when you intially create the new partition it is classified as "unallocated". An unallocated volume many then be formatted, after which a volume letter is assigned and it is considered active. An active volume can be "deleted" which erases any data and reclassifies the volume as "unallocated"

Other volumes can be "expanded" to take up a part or all of the unallocated space. The problem is that somehow lilxkid got the space classifed as Free Space and it will not allow him to format the space nor expand the adjacent volume to occupy that "Free Space".

This one may have to be referred to Bill's experts in Redmon. :D

What you are saying is that Mr. Murphy decided to make a house call to Lilxkid! ;-) He tends to do that on occassion.

[lilxkid24]

right clicked the new drive then delete volume. Then it showed up as free space

[rgreen4]

Ok, lilxkid24 - let me understand. When you first shrank the boot volume (C: ), the new volume showed up as unallocated. Did you right click and delete at that point or after you had formatted it to a simple volume?

[lilxkid24]

Good thing i took a ss of it before. That pic was the unac one. Then i right clicked and made a new volume. After i deleted the volume that was made it became free space.

http://s209.photobuc...urrent=disk.jpg