Deleted partition with disk management, can't get it back!

> So I just tired to repartition while booting off the Vista CD, but when I
> went to make a new partition with the unallocated space, I got this error
> "error 0x8004240f". Did vista just screw up my hard drive?
>
> "Dan" wrote:
>

>> Setup:
>> 1 harddrive, 3 partitions: C(80GB)-vista, D(20GB)-xp, E(200GB)-storage
>>
>> I decided I didn't want xp partition anymore so I used disk management in
>> Vista to delete the volume. It shows up as "Free space" now. When I attempt
>> to make a new simple volume in the free space (also using disk management) I
>> get error "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete
>> this operation." What's up with that? Please help me get my 20GB back!
>>
>> PS - I've tried extending my storage partition but it says there's not
>> volume to extend it to (diskpart)

> Either you typoed the error code, or your case is unique:
> http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=Search+Groups
>
> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22F88D8A-6B56-473E-AFF1-C18D21A8E101@microsoft.com...

> > So I just tired to repartition while booting off the Vista CD, but when I
> > went to make a new partition with the unallocated space, I got this error
> > "error 0x8004240f". Did vista just screw up my hard drive?
> >
> > "Dan" wrote:
> >

> >> Setup:
> >> 1 harddrive, 3 partitions: C(80GB)-vista, D(20GB)-xp, E(200GB)-storage
> >>
> >> I decided I didn't want xp partition anymore so I used disk management in
> >> Vista to delete the volume. It shows up as "Free space" now. When I attempt
> >> to make a new simple volume in the free space (also using disk management) I
> >> get error "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete
> >> this operation." What's up with that? Please help me get my 20GB back!
> >>
> >> PS - I've tried extending my storage partition but it says there's not
> >> volume to extend it to (diskpart)

>
>
>

> Searching Web instead of just groups shows a few hits:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...0f&btnG=Search
>
> "Michael Jennings" wrote:
>

>> Either you typoed the error code, or your case is unique:
>> http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=Search+Groups
>>
>> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22F88D8A-6B56-473E-AFF1-C18D21A8E101@microsoft.com...

>> > So I just tired to repartition while booting off the Vista CD, but when I
>> > went to make a new partition with the unallocated space, I got this error
>> > "error 0x8004240f". Did vista just screw up my hard drive?
>> >
>> > "Dan" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Setup:
>> >> 1 harddrive, 3 partitions: C(80GB)-vista, D(20GB)-xp, E(200GB)-storage
>> >>
>> >> I decided I didn't want xp partition anymore so I used disk management in
>> >> Vista to delete the volume. It shows up as "Free space" now. When I attempt
>> >> to make a new simple volume in the free space (also using disk management) I
>> >> get error "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete
>> >> this operation." What's up with that? Please help me get my 20GB back!
>> >>
>> >> PS - I've tried extending my storage partition but it says there's not
>> >> volume to extend it to (diskpart)

>>
>>
>>

> You did not typo the error code. I apologize for my misstatement.
>
> Disk management gave me an error when I tried to format
> raw space (green bar) rather than unallocated space (black bar).
> Which do you have - raw or unallocated? If raw, delete it, create
> a simple volume and format it. Delete again until you get back
> to unallocated, then extend into the space from either side.
>
> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8B072709-B8E0-451D-90A0-FC1C126FE4CC@microsoft.com...

> > Searching Web instead of just groups shows a few hits:
> > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...0f&btnG=Search
> >
> > "Michael Jennings" wrote:
> >

> >> Either you typoed the error code, or your case is unique:
> >> http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=Search+Groups
> >>
> >> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22F88D8A-6B56-473E-AFF1-C18D21A8E101@microsoft.com...
> >> > So I just tired to repartition while booting off the Vista CD, but when I
> >> > went to make a new partition with the unallocated space, I got this error
> >> > "error 0x8004240f". Did vista just screw up my hard drive?
> >> >
> >> > "Dan" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Setup:
> >> >> 1 harddrive, 3 partitions: C(80GB)-vista, D(20GB)-xp, E(200GB)-storage
> >> >>
> >> >> I decided I didn't want xp partition anymore so I used disk management in
> >> >> Vista to delete the volume. It shows up as "Free space" now. When I attempt
> >> >> to make a new simple volume in the free space (also using disk management) I
> >> >> get error "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete
> >> >> this operation." What's up with that? Please help me get my 20GB back!
> >> >>
> >> >> PS - I've tried extending my storage partition but it says there's not
> >> >> volume to extend it to (diskpart)
> >>
> >>
> >>

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