unallocated space on SSD

[tarek.ld94]

Hello guys I bought a new SSD Kingston 480Gb yesterday and I instantly had an issue with unallocated space (451MB), the big partition says (446.47Gb) and on its right 1 says (99MB Healthy) the other one is the (451MB) unallocated...
So the problem is I am trying to make a new simple volume of it and it says (there's not enough space available on the disk....)
even when I try to extend volume of the 446GB it shows the unallocated 449MB but it says the same as above (not enough space etc....)

So I can't do anything with it, even tried couple of partition tools but nothing works, I am not an expert with the tools (probably using it wrong)

 

[geofelt]

If this is a windows C drive, there will be a small hidden recovery partition allocated on the drive.
That is likely what the 99mb partition is.

The advertised 480gb is not what you will get.
Some amount of the 480gb will be reserved for spares.

 

[tarek.ld94]

I am not worried about the actual size nor looking to get the 99mb.

I am asking about the 449MB unallocated space that I can't merge with the rest of the 446GB, nor make a simple volume out of it..

And no this is not the Windows C drive. I already have windows installed on the older SSD.

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[tarek.ld94]

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Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Here's a few screenshots to see what I am getting step by step
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/therestistea/library/?view=recent&page=1

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Here's a few screenshots to see what I am getting step by step
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/therestistea/library/?view=recent&page=1

Small fuzzy pics.
Disk 2 is the new SSD?

 

[tarek.ld94]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Here's a few screenshots to see what I am getting step by step
http://s558.photobucket.com/user/therestistea/library/?view=recent&page=1

Small fuzzy pics.
Disk 2 is the new SSD?

sorry man, I had no idea how to upload a picture here and yes Disk 2 is the new SSD named it (kingston ssd (f

 

[SkyNetRising]

Why have you made your drives dynamic? This just causes problems.
I'd suggest, you:

• copy contents of drive F: to drive D:
  delete all partitions from disk 2 (drive F: and 99MB partition)
  convert disk 2 to basic;
  create single large partition on disk 2 (assign letter F: to it)
  copy back data from drive D: to drive F:

 

[USAFRet]

Are you 100% sure thisis a "new" drive?
It shouldn't come with those partitions.

In any case, since you just got it, there's nothing on it yet you need to keep.
Delete all 3 partitions, reformat, and give it a drive letter.
One large blank space.

 

[tarek.ld94]

ok will copy files on another drive and delete volume then format it and convert it to basic... I will let you know when its done
Thanks for the help guys.

 

[tarek.ld94]

ok so I did what you told me to..

1-Moved files from F: to another drive
2-formated the drive F:
3-Converted F: from dynamic to Basic

now the unallocated space 449MB can be allocated as a new Volume but cannot be merged with drive F:
so its okay I at least I got the unallocated volume to be used even if it is as different drive.

 

[tarek.ld94]

Why have you made your drives dynamic? This just causes problems.
I'd suggest, you:

• copy contents of drive F: to drive D:
  delete all partitions from disk 2 (drive F: and 99MB partition)
  convert disk 2 to basic;
  create single large partition on disk 2 (assign letter F: to it)
  copy back data from drive D: to drive F:

Are you 100% sure thisis a "new" drive?
It shouldn't come with those partitions.

In any case, since you just got it, there's nothing on it yet you need to keep.
Delete all 3 partitions, reformat, and give it a drive letter.
One large blank space.

here's how it is now

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[USAFRet]

ok so I did what you told me to..

1-Moved files from F: to another drive
2-formated the drive F:
3-Converted F: from dynamic to Basic

now the unallocated space 449MB can be allocated as a new Volume but cannot be merged with drive F:
so its okay I at least I got the unallocated volume to be used even if it is as different drive.

A 500MB partition isn't much good.

You need to delete all existing partitions, leaving one blank space.
Then, New Simple Volume, format, and give it a drive letter.

 

[tarek.ld94]

ok so I did what you told me to..

1-Moved files from F: to another drive
2-formated the drive F:
3-Converted F: from dynamic to Basic

now the unallocated space 449MB can be allocated as a new Volume but cannot be merged with drive F:
so its okay I at least I got the unallocated volume to be used even if it is as different drive.

A 500MB partition isn't much good.

You need to delete all existing partitions, leaving one blank space.
Then, New Simple Volume, format, and give it a drive letter.

Can't. won't let me delete them, it will only allow me to delete the 446GB.. the other 99mb and 450mb cannot be deleted.

 

[USAFRet]

Can't. won't let me delete them, it will only allow me to delete the 446GB.. the other 99mb and 450mb cannot be deleted.

Then the clean command in diskpart, from a commandline.
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en

Be absolutely sure of which drive you are referencing in there.

 

[tarek.ld94]

Excellent, I followed those simple steps and its now clean and all 3 partitions that were there are now in 1 volume. Thank you so much for your time dear. have a great weekend