Question on Vista partition(s)

[gizbug]

I have a 100gb hard drive. Right now I have two partitions. I just looked in Computer Management, and it says C: 55.30 GB NTFS, then next to it, is another group that says D: 37.20GB and one joined with that group saying 675 MB Free Space. What is this "Free Space?" When I right click it, only thing that I can select is "New Simple Volume" or "Help." I had UBuntu on and it made 2 partitions, and I delelted / merged the first one onto the c partition.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm a bit of a noob, so take this with a grain of salt...I think Ubuntu creates a partition for the swap file. That's probably what that is. I'd use gparted on the Ubuntu disc to merge that space with one of your other partitions.

 

[Nothinman]

Windows should list any Linux partitions as used, right clicking on them in the disk management tool should just give you an option to delete them not create a new one.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: gizbug
I have a 100gb hard drive. Right now I have two partitions. I just looked in Computer Management, and it says C: 55.30 GB NTFS, then next to it, is another group that says D: 37.20GB and one joined with that group saying 675 MB Free Space. What is this "Free Space?" When I right click it, only thing that I can select is "New Simple Volume" or "Help." I had UBuntu on and it made 2 partitions, and I delelted / merged the first one onto the c partition.

Umm.... It's free space.... Is this some sort of trick question?

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: gizbug
I have a 100gb hard drive. Right now I have two partitions. I just looked in Computer Management, and it says C: 55.30 GB NTFS, then next to it, is another group that says D: 37.20GB and one joined with that group saying 675 MB Free Space. What is this "Free Space?" When I right click it, only thing that I can select is "New Simple Volume" or "Help." I had UBuntu on and it made 2 partitions, and I delelted / merged the first one onto the c partition.

Umm.... It's free space.... Is this some sort of trick question?

LoL I didn't read it like that. I wonder if it's that simple