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Change partition size on my C drive

Last answer on Sep 16, 2009 3:57:05 am BST kendog13, on Apr 23, 2009 4:20:02 pm BST 
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Hello,

i have an hp pavilion laptop that im having some trouble with, long story short, i reinstalled the os after messing with the settings a little bit, and now my C drive says that it is only 35 gigs instead of 320.... can anyone help me change the size of the partition back to the full 320?

HP Pavilion dc6871us laptop

(ive been reading and think i might be able to do this with a reinstall cd... i dont have a copy of an actual windows disc, but i have an upgrade disc and a dell reinstall disc... can i use either one of those cd's to reformat the hard drive?)

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sharpman, on May 24, 2009 4:19:23 pm BST
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Go into storage management and check if hdd is seen by system to its full capacity. you can then add a partition to the remaining space. this will give you 2 partitions, one of 35 gb and the other one with the remaining size. you can then format that partition.

saves on having to reload your system.

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 longtail, on Aug 13, 2009 3:44:27 pm BST

As sharpman said, you'd better check in Disk Management first, if the residual space is unallocated, you can easily create another partition in disk management. But if there is only 35GB totally, there must be hidden partition and you need to use the hard drive tool providing by the manufacturer to solve the problem.

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