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Partition Space Problem: Shoot me or the Computer?!?!?

I'm using Vista. I started with a 7 gig partition, it's now telling me I have hardly half a gig free. (I did at one point start a back up of the c: drive to the partition space accidentally, but deleted off those files).

When I check what's in there, it tells me there's a media.idbin file taking up 528k and the partition file that doesn't state any size whatsoever.

I can't find anyway to free up the space and it's causing problems. Is there a way to re-adjust the partition without formating the whole drive? I ran disk clean, checked for bad sectors, everything is checking out okay.

As far as I know, there's no recovery data on the drive. I use a CD for a restore point. The one time I blue screened the computer wouldn't recognize a restore point from the partition. As best I can tell the partition is empty.

I'm using administrator access.

Any questions, feel free to ask. I appreciate the help.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You cant just format the partition? I think you get an option of formating the partition in Vista interface.

  • 1 decade ago

    if you want to re-partition your hard drive, then get norton prtition magic

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