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vfernjones   04-24-2009 at 01:56:16 AM

I have a 160G HD in my Acer Laptop computer which is running Vista Home Pemium. It is partitioned into C & D..and between the 2 partitions only 79G is accounted for..any idea what is going on with the other 90G?? I just reformatted thinking that would cue the problem, but it didnt.

Thanks for any help.

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   04-24-2009 at 11:03:10 AM
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Maybe the D partition isn't active, you'll have to "mount" in that case:

-Go to your desktop and press Windows Key + R
-Type "diskmgmt.msc" and press Enter
-Look for D: and right click on its bar
-Select "Mark Partition as Active"

Hope this helps!

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mikrev007   04-24-2009 at 11:09:11 AM
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The "active" is the one that contains the initial boot files (only one partition can be marked as active per harddrive). If that is changed to D and D is not that partition, Windows will not start on next boot.


Message edited by mikrev007 on 04-24-2009 at 11:11:11 AM
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jtt283   04-24-2009 at 06:36:17 PM
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Ouch. Don't mark a different partition as Active! But you can use diskmgmt to look for unallocated space, and create another partition out of it. You could also use a program like Partition Magic to add that unallocated space to an existing partition.

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