Question disk mgt make partition

[paulmars]

HP support said the install function from the repair/install files on separate partition on HDD would allow me to make additional partitions. Well, it did not. So, right after install completed, I went to disk management to do so. However, the installed win 10 is occupying 3% of 880g hdd, but disk mgt says that only 470M is unallocated and can be moved to another partition.



I did a defrag and it only slightly changed that number.



Why the discrepancy?

Product number:V9B64AA
HP All-in-One - 24-e025t
win 10

tks,
paul

 

[britechguy]

Unused space in a partition and unallocated space on a drive are not one and the same.

Could you please post a screen shot of Disk Manager for your system?

Also, I find MiniTool Partition Wizard to be an easier to use utility for managing partitions than the Windows Disk Manager. It also doesn't finalize anything until you tell it to do so, which allows you to fiddle around more (if needed) to come to an arrangement that's optimal for your intended purposes.

 

[TerryLaze]

HP support said the install function from the repair/install files on separate partition on HDD would allow me to make additional partitions. Well, it did not.

A typical installation will show you the available drives at some point,choose the drive you want to add partitions to and delete all non essential partitions (if the recovery partition is on the same drive you won't be able to delete that) now you can re partition all that unallocated space any way you want creating as many partitions as you want.

With windows already installed it's a little bit different,you will have to shrink the one big partition you have and then create a new partition on the freshly created unallocated space.