Sagararora :
I have a dell inspiron 15r laptop, with hdd of 500gb and suddenly in ''My Computer'' it showed a C drive of 130gb and an E drive of 97gb. What is the solution to restore back the entire space.
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Sagararora,
The image posted shows a series of 8 chopped up HD partitions and volumes- more partitions than I thought was possible. Our friend rdg1101 logically asks, "what did you do?" because that illogical arrangement had to be set up. One partition is shown as RAW and here are repeated recovery partitions. An extremely odd situation.
My suggestion would be to format the drive, which would remove all those partitions, and reinstall everything. If that is not possible,
1> leave everything as is and download and install the free version of Easeus Partition Master.
2> Defragment each partition and then
3> merge all the partitions forward of the C: drive into the C: partition for the operating systems and programs- and call it "Primary", then
4> merge all the partitions following the C: into a single data/files partition- and call it "Logical". The Easeus is very easy to use. Keep in mind that you create a list of partition tasks and then press " apply" and it will make all the changes at once. When you set the partitions remember to set the "non-allocated" space to logical partition so they are useable. Perhaps the "missing" space in the current configuration is actually unallocated.
If you add up the list of partitions from the screen shot, it shows 661.9 GB- this must be showing a CD-ROM volume/ However, adding up the bar graph partitions shows 465.14GB - exactly what you'd expect -it's typical for a "500GB" drive to show a total of 465GB.
Cheers,
BambiBoom
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