Half of Aspire V5 HDD inaccessible

RDCoole
RDCoole Member Posts: 5

Tinkerer
edited September 2023 in 2019 Archives
After a Windows 8.1 crash, I had to use the Acer Recovery thumb drive to restore my system.  All looked good, till I went into Computer and found I only had access to about half of my 500GB HD.  It showed 190GB free of 224GB.  When I tried a partitioning program I discovered a "D:" partition.  This did not show up in Computer. When I tried to delete the "D:" partition I got 'Partition unallocated'.  How do I delete this partition so as to make my whole HD accessible?

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  • ven98
    ven98 ACE Posts: 4,073 Pathfinder
    Go to disk management and right-click on the unallocated space and select create new simple volume or right-click on the C partition and select to extend it.
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  • RDCoole
    RDCoole Member Posts: 5

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    edited March 2019
    When I right-click on the unallocated space and go thru the New Simple Volume I end up with the partition as 'D' again.  When I right-click on the C partition, Extend Volume is 'grayed out' and not available.  What I want to do is delete the D and regain the space for C.

    This is W 8.1 if that will help.

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