Urgent help please...PC disk attributes not showing....

[RayGuselli]

Hi all

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

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[lacogada]

Type Exit and hit enter should get you out of command prompt

 

[RayGuselli]

Sincere thanks as always Lacogada...
That gets me out of trouble.
I guess the next thing is to establish, can I continue if I have no attributes to copy for later on in the process?
Perhaps I can continue if I wouldn't need attributes?
Have exited though to be safe.....
Many thanks
Ray

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[lacogada]

I guess the next thing is to establish, can I continue if I have no attributes to copy for later on in the process?
Perhaps I can continue if I wouldn't need attributes?

No experience with what you're trying to do ... so can't comment.

 

[SecondTimeAround]

Sincere thanks as always Lacogada...
That gets me out of trouble.
I guess the next thing is to establish, can I continue if I have no attributes to copy for later on in the process?
Perhaps I can continue if I wouldn't need attributes?
Have exited though to be safe.....
Many thanks
Ray

The relatively tiny 1.4GB unallocated space represents only 0.0007 of your 2TB SSD.
I would probably just leave it as-is.

 

[tbcass]

Hi all

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

Don't mess with it. According to Microsoft:

"System reserved storage

To make sure your device can successfully update and that it runs its best, Windows reserves a portion of storage space on your device for use by temporary files, caches, and other files. When your device is low on space, Windows will clear reserved storage so it can be used for other processes, like a Windows update. Reserving storage also helps keep disk space usage on your device more predictable and more stable."

 

[s_grins]

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[SecondTimeAround]

Hi all

Urgent help please.

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

Don't mess with it. According to Microsoft:

"System reserved storage

To make sure your device can successfully update and that it runs its best, Windows reserves a portion of storage space on your device for use by temporary files, caches, and other files. When your device is low on space, Windows will clear reserved storage so it can be used for other processes, like a Windows update. Reserving storage also helps keep disk space usage on your device more predictable and more stable."

"Unallocated" space and "System Reserved" storage are two different things.

 

[RayGuselli]

So sorry...

I have attached a photo...

Perhaps this makes more sense....

The drive is 1863.02 GB....but where is the rest of it?

Sorry about that

Ray





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[RayGuselli]

Sincere thanks as always Lacogada...
That gets me out of trouble.
I guess the next thing is to establish, can I continue if I have no attributes to copy for later on in the process?
Perhaps I can continue if I wouldn't need attributes?
Have exited though to be safe.....
Many thanks
Ray

The relatively tiny 1.4GB unallocated space represents only 0.0007 of your 2TB SSD.
I would probably just leave it as-is.

JUST NOTICED...IT IS NOT 1.4gb But 1.4 TB....almost 3/4 of the drive

 

[SecondTimeAround]

So sorry...
I have attached a photo...
Perhaps this makes more sense....
The drive is 1863.02 GB....but where is the rest of it?
Sorry about that
Ray

You originally said you had 1.4 GB unallocated space, but your screenshot shows you have 1415.89 GB, or roughly 1.4 TB, unallocated space.

As it's pretty easy to render a drive unbootable when trying to move and/or resize partitions, may I suggest you have a local PC tech fix it for you.

 

[RayGuselli]

Further to my amendment...

I think I am correct...

It is not 1.4GB but 1.4TB

This is almost 3/4 of the drive size.

Ray

 

[Toermalijn]

So sorry...
I have attached a photo...
Perhaps this makes more sense....
The drive is 1863.02 GB....but where is the rest of it?
Sorry about that
Ray

The rest gets "lost" due to the formatting of the disk. 2TB is never exactly 2 TB after formatting.

2 TB (2000 GB decimal code on product ) 1,81 TB after formatting (binary code) Hence the disk shows smaller in windows But is basically the same size. just written differently due to conversion decimal vs binary...

Unallocated space needs to be formatted. You can format that part at the end of the c drive and either enlarge the third part with 1415tb or you delete the 3rd part as well and format the whole at once.



I see 3rd part is recovery, don't touch it. Just format the 1414GB part and you can use it.



Can you re-install windows 10-11? It's a very strange allocation for a disk, were you trying to make 2 drives on the SSD? You can format the allocated and name it drive d etc.

 

[RayGuselli]

Hi Second time Around

Apologies for my typing mistake in my original post because as you rightly say I referred to gigabytes rather than terabytes. I do tend to agree with you as well that having an expert do something like this is far more sensible but in the past I have managed to allocate Drive names and to extend on allocated partitions etc which I think is a fairly simple task. The problem this time was that there was another section preventing me from extending as I wanted to. The video that I posted does seem to show a solution to the problem but I only became stock when it was asking for attributes which were not there on my machine. As you rightly say it probably then becomes a job which is more specialist than I could do but will perhaps have a look and see if I can find the attributes through some sort of search on Google and if so I should then be able to proceed but would have course do so with great caution not wanting to render the drive on usable or damage it in any way. Since you're apologies for any confusion on my part.

Very best wishes Ray

 

[s_grins]

Further to my amendment...
I think I am correct...
It is not 1.4GB but 1.4TB
This is almost 3/4 of the drive size.
Ray

Ray, You have an :E partition with allocated 1.5Tb space . It is healthy. I do not understand what is wrong with your drive :E. I guess you do not have to do anything, just use it

Regards

Simon

 

[RayGuselli]

Hi Toermalijn,

Many thanks as always for coming to my help the drive that I am referring to I have never touched because I would not have the experience to do so but it was a replacement too terabyte drive that was put in when the original mechanical 640 Drive started to fail. It is therefore exactly as it was put in at the shop. I think they cloned it and it has operated without problem and it was only by chance I noticed a substantial part of it was unallocated.

Coincidentally a friend of mine who is local suggested the same solution that you have come up with which is giving it a drive letter and using it that way and that might therefore be the simplest way of using it and perhaps something that I can look to do the. With this being the drive with my programs on I am of course very wary and don't want to do anything that would damage anything and it might be that I do end up going back to the shop and asking them to use that on allocated space. Once again many thanks for your help.

Best wishes as always Ray

 

[Toermalijn]

Hi Second time Around

Apologies for my typing mistake in my original post because as you rightly say I referred to gigabytes rather than terabytes. I do tend to agree with you as well that having an expert do something like this is far more sensible but in the past I have managed to allocate Drive names and to extend on allocated partitions etc which I think is a fairly simple task. The problem this time was that there was another section preventing me from extending as I wanted to. The video that I posted does seem to show a solution to the problem but I only became stock when it was asking for attributes which were not there on my machine. As you rightly say it probably then becomes a job which is more specialist than I could do but will perhaps have a look and see if I can find the attributes through some sort of search on Google and if so I should then be able to proceed but would have course do so with great caution not wanting to render the drive on usable or damage it in any way. Since you're apologies for any confusion on my part.

Very best wishes Ray

Don't worry, you can just format that part of the drive. It will be a D, E or whatever driveletter.

 

[Toermalijn]

Hi Toermalijn,

Many thanks as always for coming to my help the drive that I am referring to I have never touched because I would not have the experience to do so but it was a replacement too terabyte drive that was put in when the original mechanical 640 Drive started to fail. It is therefore exactly as it was put in at the shop. I think they cloned it and it has operated without problem and it was only by chance I noticed a substantial part of it was unallocated.

Coincidentally a friend of mine who is local suggested the same solution that you have come up with which is giving it a drive letter and using it that way and that might therefore be the simplest way of using it and perhaps something that I can look to do the. With this being the drive with my programs on I am of course very wary and don't want to do anything that would damage anything and it might be that I do end up going back to the shop and asking them to use that on allocated space. Once again many thanks for your help.

Best wishes as always Ray

Now I understand why it shows up like that. You probably cloned the ould drive to the new ssd with some software? That explanes why it is just so small a windows partion and why the 1.4 TB isn't used., Just format it, done. Can you re-install windows 10-11?

You can check the digital license bij pressing windows key -x, system-info.

You can just download an iso file from Microsoft and re-install windows 10-11. Then you can allocate the whole disk for install.

 

[tbcass]

So sorry...
I have attached a photo...
Perhaps this makes more sense....
The drive is 1863.02 GB....but where is the rest of it?
Sorry about that
Ray

That is strange. Here's what I see with my computer. Unallocated in only 15mb.







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[RayGuselli]

That sounds good...I will try that and see if it works...

I don't think i have disks for W10 and think I upgraded from 7 when you could do via Microsoft

I will give your suggestion or try though and hopefully that will sort everything out.

Sincere thanks again Ray