[SOLVED] Hard Drive shrunk to 350 MB instead of 180 GB Please help

[anbddsiio]

Hello, I have an Acer laptop that has 4 hard drives having about 150-180 GB. Here, is my Speccy snapshot: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/rBH5QxQCNh0SEdT76k862ea
But the last drive (G has been shrunk to 350 MB recently after I installed Windows 7 in it. You can see the picture below.

https://imgur.com/vwBAzKN

View: https://imgur.com/vwBAzKN


I have tried every solution in the internet, but they are not working. I also believe it will not be a SYSTEM partition.

Is there any fix?

 

[taeioum]

The 350MB partition (G: ) is made when installing Windows. I would advise to delete the G: drive letter on that partition, as you don't want to mess with the files on it.

You're specifically looking for your C:, D: and E: "drives" (partitions). The D: and E: drive are both ~180GB in size.

If you add the C:, D: and E: partitions, the total is about 465GB, which tells me you have a 500GB hard drive.

 

[ElectrO_90]

You shouldn't be seeing DRIVES, for them partitions, so this is something you did and you should undo it straight away.
Don't MESS with things you don't understand fully - that's how you screw things up.

 

[anbddsiio]

So, there is no way to fix this?

 

[CountMike]

So, there is no way to fix this?

Nothing has "shrunk", G: partition is made by windows installation and should not have a letter. Fix is to remove the letter G: from it's partition.

 

[anbddsiio]

I was searching and found a solution for it. BUT it was not! I thought that converting G drive from Active to Logical drive would fix it. So, I used EaseUS Partition Master.
But after restart, instead of showing Windows loading screen, it is showing 'BOOTMGR not found' every time.
So, I made a bootable disc with EaseUS PM image and booted it.
And saw that the G drive has disappeared!
You can see the image here:

https://imgur.com/ymmJsHF

View: http://imgur.com/ymmJsHF

 

[AllanGH]

This is a good time to re-install windows, and take the advice that ElectrO_90 gave you.

 

[CountMike]

I was searching and found a solution for it. BUT it was not! I thought that converting G drive from Active to Logical drive would fix it. So, I used EaseUS Partition Master.
But after restart, instead of showing Windows loading screen, it is showing 'BOOTMGR not found' every time.
So, I made a bootable disc with EaseUS PM image and booted it.
And saw that the G drive has disappeared!
You can see the image here:

https://imgur.com/ymmJsHF

View: http://imgur.com/ymmJsHF

Don't know what the heck you are doing, your G "Drive" is not a drive but a partition and it didn't disappear but got a letter D: !!!! It's a BOOT partition and converting it to anything else will result in problems as it's made correctly by windows during installation.
All you had to do is to disable bloody letter for it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I was searching and found a solution for it. BUT it was not! I thought that converting G drive from Active to Logical drive would fix it. So, I used EaseUS Partition Master.

Yeah, you clearly don't understand, what you're doing.
350MB partition contains bootloader. You should not touch it. Any messing with it will result in your system to become unbootable.

 

[anbddsiio]

I removed the drive letter, now, what to do? It is still 350 MB!

https://imgur.com/wP990sw

View: https://imgur.com/wP990sw

 

[SkyNetRising]

That's it. Leave it alone. You don't have to do anything.

BTW - what exactly is the desired result here? I think, you should have started with it.

 

[anbddsiio]

But what about the other drives (C, D and E)? They are still 'primary' partition. Is it still OK?

 

[SkyNetRising]

MBR style disk can have up to 4 primary partitions.

What is your issue? What are you trying to "fix"?

 

[McKeu]

From your Speccy I can see that you have exactly ONE hard drive:

Storage
465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000LPVX-22V0TT0 ATA Device (SATA ):
42 °C

It is just partitioned. There is nothing more to it. It's like one pie that you cut into several pieces. Some partitions Windows makes itself, some are user made. I do not really see any issue that needs any intervention here.

 

[anbddsiio]

So, everything OK?

 

[McKeu]

So, everything OK?

Yes. It is still weird why your system partition got that extra drive letter (unless you partitioned it that way during the Windows installation by accident), but I would assume that everything is okay.
Do you see all the partitions that have a drive letter in your Windows Explorer with their usual size?
Can you shut down and restart your machine without issues?
Then everything should be absolutely fine.

P.S.: If something says SYSTEM partition, do not mess with it. You might render your system unbootable, resulting in you most likely having to format the whole hard drive with all its partitions in order to reinstall the OS or lose disk space.

 

[SkyNetRising]

It is still weird why your system partition got that extra drive letter (unless you partitioned it that way during the Windows installation by accident)

It is not weird. Some of windows updates can cause this effect.

 

[McKeu]

It is not weird. Some of windows updates can cause this effect.

On Win 7? Hm. Neat to know.

 

[AllanGH]

It is not weird. Some of windows updates can cause this effect.

WITHOUT advance notice to the system owner???

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes, exactly.

 

[AllanGH]

Yes, exactly.

OK...that may be normal imperious behaviour on the part of microsoft, but that is major weird, in my book.