I have a HP Pavilion dv6 laptop, with a HD of 500 GB. It has 4 partitions by default. I shrunk the windows partition by 50GB, and deleted the system recover partition. The problem is that I have unallocated 50GB, but they don't appear in windows disc manager, or in minitools partition wizard, etc. They only detect a HD of 450GB. How I can recover those 50GB?
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Dissapeared Unallocated Space
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drtweak
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In the hard drive work when you buy a 500 gig hard dive it doesn't read as 500 gigs in windows. For a computer it reads 1 Gigabyte as 1024 megabytes. Hard drive makers see 1 gigabyte as 1000 megabytes. a 500 Gig hard drive is really only 465 gigs.
If you look in Disk Manager though unallocated space will have a black bar on it. And deleteing the Recovery partition may have not been the best idea to delete. Windows Disk manager can only do so much before you need a 3rd party program to help. And when you shrunk the windows parittion you sure you didn't add it to another partition in the process?
If you look in Disk Manager though unallocated space will have a black bar on it. And deleteing the Recovery partition may have not been the best idea to delete. Windows Disk manager can only do so much before you need a 3rd party program to help. And when you shrunk the windows parittion you sure you didn't add it to another partition in the process?
The "problem" is solved. When I deleted the recovery partition, HP automatically merged that free space and the unallocated 50GB to the windows partition. That's why I didn't see that black block with the unallocated 50GB, because they were already merged. I shrank the windows partition again, and I installed linux mint in that free space, just like I wanted. Thanks for your Help.
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