Partitioning

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Tex - Oct 6, 2009 at 11:55 PM
 Tex - Oct 7, 2009 at 01:54 PM
Hello, I have a 30 GB hard drive and it is full. I cloned my hard drive to a new 500 GB hard drive. It came out well, an exact copy of my old hard drive. Now I have 435 GB of unallocated space. I tried going in to Disk Management and creating a partition or a logical drive, but it won't let me create a logical drive. Trying to go the primary drive route does not work or does the extended. Can anyone help??
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saturnrocks Posts 20 Registration date Wednesday November 5, 2008 Status Member Last seen October 7, 2009 5
Oct 7, 2009 at 12:36 AM
hello,

Have u formatted and partitioned the 500GB hard drive before cloning.... What its model? what os is in that 30gb? Moreover tell your system configuration.

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The new hard drive was formatted, the old hard drive was cloned exactly to the new hard drive. The new hard drive is a western digital WDC 500GB Cavier blue , (compatiable with a dell 2350 dimension series). Windows XP, old files, and several years of up updates and a few other programs are on the old hard drive. I can't create a partition.
saturnrocks Posts 20 Registration date Wednesday November 5, 2008 Status Member Last seen October 7, 2009 5
Oct 7, 2009 at 03:21 AM
I asked have u partitioned the 500 gb.. If yes, which drive u cloned your old hard drive....tell me the partition information.. that is how many partitions and sizes?
I formatted the new hard drive and as far as I know there are no partitions. There is 435 GB of unallocated space I can't get to. Forgive me if I don't give you the answer you are looking for. I am new to this switching hard drives and formating.