Help Formatting in Vista

[johaness9]

I just got a new laptop and I installed Windows Vista from scratch. I recall that I split the harddrive into 3 partitions so it was like Part1 Part2 and Part3 plus one untouched portion. I think I formatted 1 and 2 . Now, when I go to 'computer' in Vista, it only shows that Part1(40G) and Part2(40G) as formatted and one Local Disk E: that is only 20G. I don't see anything about the remaining 50G (160G harddisk, but it showed up as around 150G when installing Vista).

Does anyone know how I can get to the remaining 50G?

 

[UncleDave]

Shouldn't you be more worried about formatting your PC to get rid of Vista :lol:

The reason that you can't see the remaining 50Gb is that you haven't done anything with it. You will need to partition it before the OS can see it. I assume that your E disk is the partition that you created but didn't format.

 

[Dooyas]

Right click on "My Computer" go to Manage.
Go to Disk Management

From there you can format that partition.

As well, in Vista you can resize the partitions in Disk Management, so you do not need a 3rd party program to do it anymore.