Urgent help please...partition attributes not showing

[RayGuselli]

Urgent help please.

I am trying to extend my C drive to use 1.4gb of unallocated space on my 2tb ssd drive.

I am following the tutorial below which at 1m54 seconds says to

copy the Type

Copy the attributes

The type on my PC is simply shown as 27

But, there are no attributes to copy

I am therefore stuck in command prompt and do not know how to get out in case I make a mistake or can I continue without attributes etc…

Can I just continue without the attributes?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Ray

ps I am absolutely not PC literate but just following this tutorial

--
VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE...HOPE YOU LIKE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77568703@N03/
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10221991804496169&type=3

 

[RayGuselli]

--
VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE...HOPE YOU LIKE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77568703@N03/
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10221991804496169&type=3

 

[New Wrycuda]

Urgent help please.

I am trying to extend my C drive to use 1.4gb of unallocated space on my 2tb ssd drive.

I am following the tutorial below ps I am absolutely not PC literate but just following this tutorial…

You are chasing 1.4 GB of unallocated space???

There’ll often be scraps left over after standard partitioning. Not worth pursuing.

There’s a good chance that shutting down and restarting will get you back to scratch.

Hint: I’ve only ever partitioned a drive about twice in 40 years of in-depth PC wrangling.

 

[RayGuselli]

Apologies but I meant to put 1.4 tb ...

My fault and apologies.

A colleague in another forum here have suggested that I just need to format that partition and hopefully that will resolve the problem.

Best wishes Ray

 

[Robert Zanatta]

You won't be able to extend your C: partition because you have a recovery position between it and the free space. So you need to move the recovery partition to the end of the drive.

The following link will explain how to do this. It's a few steps but not difficult to do.

Moving Windows Recovery Partition Correctly

There are many ways to move the Windows Recovery Partition. Here's how to move the Recovery Partition without taking the system offline.

thedxt.ca

 

[RayGuselli]

Hi Robert,
Massive thanks for this.
The video I put at the foot of my post shows the steps you have here but in the video, it refers to copying attributes: there were no attributes to copy.
However I will bookmark your description which is very helpful thank you.
My good friend Toermalijn in retouching managed to sort for me in a very easy step as below and I am now up and running.
However, thank you again.
Best wishes Ray

--
VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE...HOPE YOU LIKE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77568703@N03/
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10221991804496169&type=3

 

[BobKnDP]

Apologies but I meant to put 1.4 tb ...

My fault and apologies.

A colleague in another forum here have suggested that I just need to format that partition and hopefully that will resolve the problem.

Best wishes Ray

You'd need to allocate the partition and then format it (probably NTFS).

It would need a separate drive letter. It would not be part of C:.

Personally, I wouldn't like that.

 

[New Wrycuda]

Apologies but I meant to put 1.4 tb ...

That possibility did occur to me after I had finished for the night, but I let my response stand.

Interesting that I referred to your original 1.4GB as a “scrap”. I distinctly remember about 30 years ago, a young enthusiast breathlessly informing me that his PC now had “almost 1GB of storage” thanks to multiple HDDs and various compression routines.

Pleased that you are now sorted.

BTW, I’ve only ever partitioned in order to comply with OS restrictions. (e.g. DOS 3.3; 32MB).

Alternative OS options I’ve managed with separate spare computers, mainly because the Windows computers were mostly demo models that had to be available for sale.

 

[skyglider]

The C partition at 446GB is a good size for Windows and installed programs only. If you are running the C partition with Windows and installed programs only, then there's no need to enlarge its size.

As you have already been advised, the 1.415 TB partition on the system drive can be formatted to NTFS. It will be assigned the drive letter "D" since you currently have C, E and F drive letters.

Assuming that your E drive at 1.863 TB is used as your "data" drive, then you could use the 1.415 TB partition on the system drive as "convenient" backup for data on the 1.863 TB "E" drive. Yes the 1.415 TB partition is smaller than the 1.863 TB partition but as long as the data on the 1.863 TB "E" drive is less than 1.415 TB, then all is good.

ON THE OTHER HAND:
If you store data in the C partition, then it would be better to use a partition manager to move the 525 MB recovery partition to the end of the drive and enlarge the C partition as others have suggested.

BY THE WAY:
I assume that the 2TB system drive is a SSD and not a mechanical HDD .

 

[RayGuselli]

Thank you Bob,

Appreciate your feedback.

Very best wishes

Ray

 

[RayGuselli]

Thanks New Wrycuda

All a bit frightening for someone like me with no PC experience but as always, thanks to friends in DPR, I did get sorted in the end.

Thank you again for your help.

Best wishes Ray

 

[New Wrycuda]

Thanks New Wrycuda
All a bit frightening for someone like me with no PC experience but as always, thanks to friends in DPR, I did get sorted in the end.
Thank you again for your help.
Best wishes Ray

Just to elaborate, I’m reasonably familiar with the topic under discussion, but never felt the need for partitioning with the majority of systems that I’ve dealt with.

Any laptop that I’ve used over the years has simply had a data folder on the boot drive, plus some form of external drive for backup.

My current computers have…

• 256GB or 512GB NVMe SSD (Boot + Applications)
• 1TB SATA SSD (Data)
• 1TB USB SSD (Backup)
• Network access to other data.

Hence no need for partitioning, although an original Dell desktop has several hidden partitions for restoration purposes.

SATA is fast enough for my needs and the drive is readily swapped into another computer in an emergency.