So allegedly Jake is foolish enough to have given me an “Editor” account on here – which not only lets me post stuff – but also lets me edit his posts. Now I’m a generally responsible person, but seriously – I made the Martina-Shot, okay?
Also, the new WordPress admin panel is much nicer than it use to be, and comes with a nice Web 2.0 colour scheme; mixing pale and vibrant blues with a sandy yellow, as well as a blue tinged black that would look much better were it brown.
This is not the right kind of partition!However I digress, I have something more important to say than the obligatory “first post“. This, my captive audience, is a story of extended partitions.
A while back I decided that I wanted to give Vista a try, and the only machine I had that was capable of running all the whorish features I wanted to try was my laptop – and there was no way at that time I was making my laptop’s primary OS Vista. So my friend Murdoch who runs Linux suggested I download partition magic and make a partition to install Vista to. This sounded like a great idea, so I tried it, it worked – and for a while I was happy with my dual boot.
That is until I realized I wasn’t using Vista that often, and my hard drive size was becoming increasingly small. So I decided to embark on the quest of removing this extended partition.
Allegedly this is not something easily done. Partition magic failed at it, which didn’t really make me all that happy – and after some quick google searches and conferencing with Jake I came to the conclusion that the only way to do it was to wipe my entire disk and reinstall an OS.
Three months later [read: last night], I was finally ready to do a reformat. In went the Vista disk [which I’ve adopted on the laptop now], and up came the “Install Vista where?” screen. I saw my quarry – sitting proudly ontop of my 15 gigs of space that I’d like back – but it had outsmarted me because the Vista install disk had no idea what the fuck and could not delete, reformat, or do anything to the partition.
Great. So I installed Vista overtop of the old XP install and decided to try the Vista Disk Management tool that a few of my friends have been talking about. The extended partition showed up as “Free Space” which unfortunately is neither “Unallocated Space” or an “Extended Partition”. After a few attempts at deleting the partition – each time met with the oddly inapplicable error message: “There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this action”.
After some posts on the good old interweb, I’ve been suggested a few apps to try and help recover my 15 gigs. I’ll post back if I end up reclaiming them.
The moral of the story though? Don’t use extended partitions unless you never want the space back!
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