iconia w700 memory hard drive

russtully
russtully Member Posts: 7 New User
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After using the usb recovery drive my hard drive is full and there is a "d"drive now.

How do I fix it?

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer

    If you still have the recovery stick you can safeky delete the recovery partition it created for you and recover that area. Use Disk Manager to delete the D partition, then expand the C partition to use the rest of the space.

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  • russtully
    russtully Member Posts: 7 New User

    Thaks for helping me.

    I still have the recovery drive but im not able to delete the drive in disk manager.

    Is there something im supposed to do with the recovery stick to delete the d drive?

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer

    Does Disk Manager give any indication why it can't remove the partition?

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  • russtully
    russtully Member Posts: 7 New User

    No, it doesnt even give me that option. It has delete volume but its greyed out and you cant click on it.

    I saw where someone else used disckpart cmd but im not sure how to do that either.

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer

    Can you give me a screen shot of the context menu when you right click on that partition within Disk Manager? We may be able to work around it...

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  • russtully
    russtully Member Posts: 7 New User

    screenshot.jpg

  • russtully
    russtully Member Posts: 7 New User

    I was able to delete the recovery partition in diskpart and it did save me a little space.

    I sent the sreenshot in an earlier post.

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer

    Yeah, I'm thinking it was the pagefile that was blocking.

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  • russtully
    russtully Member Posts: 7 New User

    would I be able to delete the whole D drive in diskpart for more space? 

  • Plastixx
    Plastixx Member Posts: 66 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
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    Try these steps...

     

    http://tech-stew.com/post/2013/03/25/How-to-delete-a-gpt-protective-partition-in-Windows.aspx

  • russtully
    russtully Member Posts: 7 New User

    that worked! thanks for the help.

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