ramblin21 Loc: Sharon,Wisconsin

I have EaseUS Partion Manager Pro 11.0, as you can see I think I have a bunch
of Rift/Raft on my hard drive. I have included a screen shot of this, could anyone guess or know (What da H_ll is going on. LOL I would like to take advantage of the full hard drive. It shows I have a *:Recoverey partion, but windoze does not show it. Also I have a FAT32 and no thumb drive was in computer at the time I opened PM. An how do I recover the partions that it says are not used but in screen shot it shows it is. I only have a 250Gig HD installed. Can anyone make heads or tails out of this mess? Any an all help would be greatly appreciated.

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TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

If your total HD capacity is REALLY only 250GB, then you know this information is garbage. Two suggestions: first open the Windows disk manager (control panel, computer management, storage, disk management) and post a screenshot if you need to (although that may give you the information you need). Second, if you have a backup of the data, forget your 3rd party partition manager, partition and format the drive using native Windows tools.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

You have started down the rabbit hole!

I'll follow this with interest.

JerryOSF Loc: Bristol, VA

What you have is 232 GiB of available space of which you are using 132 and have 99 unused. These are GiB (1 billion bytes or 1000 MB). Your drive has a GPT Partition table which allows many more partitions then the older MBR partition table. Also you have an EFI partition which stores information the computer needs when it initially starts. The recovery partition is a Windoze method of restoring your computer to its original state. (This will remove everything ever added by you) Basically you are using all the space available to you. You have 99 GiB of free space remaining. The unallocated space is too small to be of any use.

jgangjr

The recovery partition and the small unallocated section at the end are normal today. The unallocated space happens because the system requires space in chunks of a certain size and the disk had an uneven amount. The system partition is also seen on some brands of computers. They are used by the operating system and are normally hidden in standard file explorer.


The other partition is only 16 MB total and are not worth the effort to "recover" the space.

ramblin21 Loc: Sharon,Wisconsin

Thanks to TriX, jerryc41, JerryOSF, igangir, for all your help. I have since deleted the partion manager as was suggested. When looked at the PM verse
the Win Management their was quite a difference. Now I will just need to learn how to use Win Management tool to my advantage. Sorry for the late reply I have been away from home, back now and with UHH'ers help I am getting there, baby steps, Thanks to all who helped :) :)