Dear All,
Tom's Hardware is my guru when trying to troubleshoot windows' problems so here I am with something I could not find any solution for on the web.
I am trying to create a partition for Liux in my Windows 7 64 HP EliteBook850 G3.
This HP has a SSD 500 GB memory, which is already divided into 4 partitions.
Following this guide here, I have deleted System partition.
I am encountering many problems:
1. I can't shrink C partition, neither using MiniTool partition Wizard, EaseUS partition Wizard or GParted. The reasons seems that C is full (no space unused) which is of course not true. If these software don't detect available space, shrinking is impossible. How can I solve this?
2. MiniTool, EaseUS and GParted don't recognize the file system of C, and it appears as 'unformatted' for GParted or 'Unknown' for MiniTool. This is strange because when using Diskpart in windows, C's file system is detected as NTFS, as it should be. Why is there a discrepancy between what these softwares and Windows detect?
3. Windows somehow is still detecting System partition even though I have deleted it and is no unallocated space. MiniTool, EaseUS and GParted instead don't recognize System (it appears as unallocated space). Why is there a discrepancy between what these softwares and Windows detect?
When I run GParted, a strange error message appears, you can access it here. Here is another photo I have taken of the same error.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Problem 1 and Problem 2 appeared also before I deleted System partition. Therefore, I don't think they are related to System partition.
Thank you so much for your help
Best Regards
Alberto
Here are some images:
Windows is still seeing System and C as NTFS, and C has free available space here. (sorry for Italian)
Diskpart sees System and C as NTFS.
EaseUS, C is full and unknown file system, System is unallocated space.
minitool's details of C.
Mintool detecting C as unknown file system, and System as unallocated space. Again, C has no free space.
What GParted displays
GParted in more details
Machine: HP EliteBook850 G3
Operative sistem: Windows 7 x64
Processsor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2501 Mh
Tom's Hardware is my guru when trying to troubleshoot windows' problems so here I am with something I could not find any solution for on the web.
I am trying to create a partition for Liux in my Windows 7 64 HP EliteBook850 G3.
This HP has a SSD 500 GB memory, which is already divided into 4 partitions.
Following this guide here, I have deleted System partition.
I am encountering many problems:
1. I can't shrink C partition, neither using MiniTool partition Wizard, EaseUS partition Wizard or GParted. The reasons seems that C is full (no space unused) which is of course not true. If these software don't detect available space, shrinking is impossible. How can I solve this?
2. MiniTool, EaseUS and GParted don't recognize the file system of C, and it appears as 'unformatted' for GParted or 'Unknown' for MiniTool. This is strange because when using Diskpart in windows, C's file system is detected as NTFS, as it should be. Why is there a discrepancy between what these softwares and Windows detect?
3. Windows somehow is still detecting System partition even though I have deleted it and is no unallocated space. MiniTool, EaseUS and GParted instead don't recognize System (it appears as unallocated space). Why is there a discrepancy between what these softwares and Windows detect?
When I run GParted, a strange error message appears, you can access it here. Here is another photo I have taken of the same error.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Problem 1 and Problem 2 appeared also before I deleted System partition. Therefore, I don't think they are related to System partition.
Thank you so much for your help
Best Regards
Alberto
Here are some images:
Windows is still seeing System and C as NTFS, and C has free available space here. (sorry for Italian)
Diskpart sees System and C as NTFS.
EaseUS, C is full and unknown file system, System is unallocated space.
minitool's details of C.
Mintool detecting C as unknown file system, and System as unallocated space. Again, C has no free space.
What GParted displays
GParted in more details
Machine: HP EliteBook850 G3
Operative sistem: Windows 7 x64
Processsor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2501 Mh