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Did you have anything on that drive to begin with? Sorry but I was not clear on whether you did or not. If you do not there is not need to do anything but reformat the unallocated space.

If you did have information you wanted on the disk your course of action will have to recover it in some fashion as {LSK}Otacon already mentioned.

Nothing got "messed up" except your understanding of what you were doing when you partioned the drive during the Vista install. It will only format the space allocated by the user i.e the 40GB partion you told it to make. The rest of the space will show up as unallocated in the disk managment snap-in b/c that is exactly what it is, space you did not allocate during the install. If you had information you wanted to keep the appropriate action would have been to partion the drive prior to the Vista install then go about installing Vista on said partion.
Oh no no, this is a fresh install of Vista on a brand new rig so I didn't have anything on this HD so there's no need to retrieve any data or anything of that sort.

So what you're saying is I can just reformat the unallocated space? I tried right clicking on the unallocated space and there wasn't any reformat option?
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post #12 of 33
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Here's a picture:

Yes, youll have to format it in order for Windows to use it and read it.

It should be a fast format though. My 170gb partition took a few seconds.

Right click and go to properties, there might be a format option in there.
    
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Sorry for the redunacy seems you beat me to it there {LSK}^^^

As {LSK}Otacon already mentioned right click on the unallocated space and format unless you have "lost" info on it then you will have to recover the files beforehand.
    
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Awesome, trying it now!
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Hmm, I right clicked on the Unallocated section and went to Properties but I don't see a reformat option under any of the tabs?
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It will say format and is under change drive letter or paths in the menu on right click.
    
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I dont remember exactly how i formatted it, but there is a way to do it in disk manager.


Try this maybe?
http://www.partition-manager.com/
    
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post #18 of 33
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Yeah, when I click on the Unallocated box, it doesn't give me any option to reformat which is odd....... I see that option only when I click on the C drive. What's up with that?
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post #19 of 33
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Can someone help?

I still can't seem to format that unallocated space..
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Why did you take a picture of your screen in windows... Just use the "Print Screen" button and then open paint and paste it..

You say "click" you are right clicking the box? Please take a screenshot of the options it gives you after you right click on the unallocated space.
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