E disk full

[ivanoe]

Morning i use to have ,(i think ) 4 sections in my computer  C for windows 7/E for all storage./D/and G for pictuers and vidio's.but a friend partioned them for me .
then i tried to put them back to the way they where.but i lost them .now i have C with windows 7 on. about 40% full and E about 95% full and it is in red.
firstly how can i tell if my hard drive is full,and how can i get rid of  unwanted files i no longer need.and can i retrieve those lost sections. i am sorry if this is not enough information but i am not sure what to tell you.

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[Raptor]

then i tried to put them back to the way they where.but i lost them .now i have C with windows 7 on. about 40% full and E about 95% full and it is in red.

How exactly did you do this? You can't "put back partitions" in Windows without losing all the data.

[patio]

A screenshot of Disk Management would provide much more info on the situation here...

[ivanoe]

Thanks for replying i havn't got a clue how i lost them

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[Raptor]

Didn't you say a friend partitioned them for you and that you then deleted the partitions?

[patio]

Looks to me that this is a 500G HDD...correct ? ?

So what he did is make the last partition out of the other 2 you had...
He however neglected to format it after creating the 3rd partition so Windows isn't using it currently and it's not showing in My Computer.

If you are fine with how it is now just right clik the 3rd partition and format it NTFS.
This would leave you with :  C: Drive...130G Windows partition.
                                       E: Drive.. 100G storage partition
                                       F: Drive...230G storage partition.

If you desire it to just be C: as is and E: as all the remaining space Post back and let us know as the procedure would be different...

[ivanoe]

Morning Patio. yes your right it is a 500gb h/d.ive' done what you said ,right clicked formatted to ntfs, and i have now ceated a third  (partition is it called )named  volume D . anyway this is now empty ,with 232gb of space . next question how can i take out of partiton E and add to Partition D.

[Raptor]

Is E empty or does it contain data?

[ivanoe]

Morning Raptor.yes E is 90% full

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[ivanoe]

Morning Patio yes i am quite happy to have one partition IE C  for widows 7.  and  E for everything else.no more partions.

[Raptor]

meh.

[JJ 3000]

In disk management, right click on that new drive (D:) you've created and delete it. After you delete it, the free space there should show as unallocated. Right click on your E: partition and select extend volume. Extend the volume into the free space.

[Raptor]

Hm, I didn't know you could do that with Windows. Since when has that been introduced?

[JJ 3000]

Hm, I didn't know you could do that with Windows. Since when has that been introduced?

Since Vista

[ivanoe]

hello jj 3000 and thanks i have done that and it as solved it.i now have my e drive about one third full.
thanks to all of you that helped me your great.where would i be without you.