I have installed Windows 7 on a new hard drive and while setting up the partitions it kept creating a partition of 100mb. Not wanting a partition of 100 mb I increased it to 130 GB, as well as setting up another couple of partitions. The partition of 130 GB does not appear in Windows 7 and I understand it is some type if reserved space I cannot access. Windows can keep its 100 mb but how do I get the rest of my 130 GB back?

First - read THIS to avoid making the same mistake again. Second - nuke the HDD in order to kill the hidden 130GB system partition that cannot be otherwise retrieved & merged with Windows 7 partition. Third - redo Win7 installation.. i_Xp/Vista/W7User

The disk management console is where you go to if something's not right with your partitioning. Go there & ensure your partition or volume allocation is configured correctly. As far as the 100mb "reserved" partition issue, it has nothing to do with your missing 130GB. http://www.computing.net/answers/wi... Windows 7 News!

in disk management, i.e right click my computer/manage/disk management, you will see the 130gig drive, 9probably thr 1st drive on disk 0) right click and reduce it to 100MB, that should fix your problem i hate computers! but cant help myself....

"Not wanting a partition of 100 mb I increased it to 130 GB, " :) Not wanting the pennies in my pocket I threw away $100 dollar bills. Try what princecorum suggested otherwise you may have to nuke it. Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)

Thanks princecorum, I was able to reduce the partition back to 100 mb but how do I now allocate the 130 gb which is now showing in disk management as unallocated. If I right click on any of the other partitions the option to extend them is grayed out.

There are ways to add it but might be easier at this point just to make a new partition and use it Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)