Vista - Disk Management - Delete and Extend

Why D:?
On my system this partition is hidden/system and without any assigned letters.

I just afraid that if I delete hidden partition some boot problems raised.

Emil,

Usually the OEM recovery partition is located on the D: Partition, and the hidden EISA partition with no drive letter is just the location of the drivers and free or trial applications files that came with your OEM computer. It will be safe to remove both of these since you have created both of these to DVD already to use instead.

Hi emil,

It will help you if you give the hidden partitions drive letters - D and E will do if your dvd drive is not already D , otherwise use E and F.

Are the hidden partitions on the left or the right as viewed in Disk Management ?

If you post a screenshot of Disk Manangement it will help.

You shouldn't have trouble booting as long as you don't move the Vista partition ( C ).

Hope it helps

SIW2

I didn't assign any drive letter and I can't to do it.
It is system / hidden/ not active partition in the beginning of disk.
My Vista running on the same disk (drive letter C).
It is factory settings.

You should be ok to delete that if you really need to -it will then be unallocted space.

You could make another partition from that unallocated space to use as you wish.

You will not be able to use Disk Management to incorporate it into the same partition Vista is on.

SIW2

Emil,

You can use METHOD TWO in the tutorial below picking up at step 2 to extend the C: partition into that bit of unallocated space so that you have just one disk again.

Partition or Volume - Extend - Windows 7 Forums

Need help extending partition C. I have run out of space. I deleted Partition D and I still cannot extend partition. It now says free space. I have a lenovo y510.

Hello Helodude, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Can you post a screenshot of your Disk Management to better see what may be going on?

Shawn

I'm having some trouble merging my hard drives.
My computer came with 2x500gb hard drives and i have already filled the first one. So i'm basically trying to use the second 500gb hard drive to extend the first one. following me?

I've already followed the intructions, but the "extend" option is grayed out. so intead i tried to use a 3rd party program - Acronis Disk Director Suite.

Tried to merge with the program, but evrytime i try it takes forever and laggs and the programs tells me that it has to quit.

here's a screen shot of my Computer Management:




If you can help me then thats great. If not can you give me any suggestions?

Hello Arashio, and welcome to Vista Forums.

With the default MBR disk you can only extend a partition into unallocated space on the exact same disk # (ex: Disk 0) and not onto another disk# (ex: Disk 1).

If disk 0 was not a system disk (with operating system installed on it), you could have converted Disk 0 and Disk 1 to be a "dynamic disk" instead of the default "MBR disk". This is not a option for you due to the above reason though.

About the only thing you can do is to format Disk 1 to make it a "New Simple Volume".

Hope this helps some,
Shawn