How do I recover some unallocated disk space?

Being new to vista and partitions, I noticed that I had 2 partitions on my computer.
C-the main one which has a max of 136gb
D-Recovery-max of 10gb

The D partition had about 6gb of free space since dell's recovery stuff only took up about 4gb so I thought that I could "shrink" the D partition to put that extra 6gb of free space onto my C drive....or something like that.

After shrinking the D partition, the D partition now takes up about 5gb but now there's 5gb of unallocated disk space.
The D partition doesn't even show up under the hard drives tab of "my computer"

Is there anyway to recover that 5gb?
Maybe I should've wiped my computer when I got it and then do a clean install...

 

what app are you using to create partitions?

unless you need the recovery partition, i'd suggest repartitioning completely. make the primary partition (C: ) about 30-50 gb for your OS, applications and games.

use the rest for the secondary partition (D: ), keep all your files ie movies, mp3s, pics etc here.

if you really need some sort of recovery system, buy a 160gb external hdd (or internal w/enclosure) and clone your laptop's hdd

 

I'm using the program that comes with vista, it's under administrator tools

nvm, im going to reformat my computer
there, problelm solved XD