Shrinking Partition
Mar 23, 2008
I have tried to shrink a partition on my HDD but have only been able to shrink it by 415mb, this is not much when you consider that I have 1Tb to play with. I have two 500gig HD's using raid 0 striped (think that's the correct way to describe it), and wish to add partitions so I can keep my operating system, devices and game separate. I already have a "Recovery" partition (15gig) which I am now using to hold my swap file as I thought this may be causing an issue (didn't help). The help menu told me about "Shadows" but could not find how to delete or even if they were causing an issue, or even if I was using them, when trying to shrink the current partition.
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Feb 28, 2009
i have windows vista home basic with only 2 partition of my hard disk t.e C & D. C with 220 GB with 158 GB free space & D with 10 GB so i wnt one more partition by shrinking C , but when i go to shrink C system show only 55 GB space available for shrinking of C.
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Jun 13, 2009
I have Vista x64 OEM on my pc since November 2007. My system has four 500GB hard disks, with C: containing nothing but windows. I'm wondering if I shrink C: partition size to say 100GB for windows, will I need to reactive Vista? Or will I have to buy a new one? Nothing else in the system is changed. (incidentally, might be upgrading graphics card soon, will that too cause a reactivation?)
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Feb 6, 2009
I just wanted to confirm a few things before I screwed up something (like, my OS). Usually, I'd use Partition Magic to resize partitions, but apparently, Vista includes something quite similar (and PM won't work on Vista) so I thought I'd give it a go. Also, this is with basic volumes, not dynamic. I have a single hard drive partitioned as: Primary Extended - contains logical partitions
1. When you shrink the size of the extended, does the extra space become available near the primary partition or after the extended? The reason I ask is because, I've read that the space you're adding to the primary must be adjacent to the primary partition. So, where does the extra space show up?
2. I've heard some people say you can't resize the primary partition without totally screwing up the OS. How likely is it that I'll ruin the OS by ADDING space? I could see a screw-up coming after shrinking a partition, but what about by extending?
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Oct 5, 2009
I recently acquired a Dell Studio XPS 435 desktop with Vista Ultimate as the OS. My plan is to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next couple of months or so. Therefore I won't need the Vista recovery partition on the hard drive. I am trying to eliminate it and add to the C: drive partition. Looking at my drive 0 in disk management I have from Right to left a C: partition 683Gb NTFS with the usual Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). Directly to the left is the Recovery or D: drive which is 15Gb NTFS marked Healthy (Primary Partition) and finally to the left is the last partition of 71Mb marked Healthy (EISA Configuration). No idea what that is. Right clicking in the Recovery partition gives several options including: format, shrink volume, extend volume, delete volume, mark volume as active, change drive letter and paths, as well as help.
My question is how to remove the recovery partition and then extend the C: partition. My first thought is to format the recovery partition, delete the volume and then right click the C: drive partition and extend it but I really need some advice so I don't screw up the whole disk. For instance I have no idea what if anything hapens to the drive letters.I think maybe what I am calling partitions are really volumes so you can see I am over my head here.
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Mar 16, 2009
i want to extend my system partition on Vista, and my friend Bob told me to use EASEUS Partition Master or Partition Magic, but i dont know which one to choose?
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Feb 6, 2009
Well for some reason when i wiped my HD clean and tried reinstalling vista home premium i couldnt make a partition until i lowered it to 250 gig. even though when i got it there was 650 gig. So now ive got 400 gig of unallocated space i want to addon to this partition. how would i do that WITHOUT UN installing vista and LOSING my data
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Jan 14, 2009
I think I messed up my hard drive while trying to erase the EISA partition on it. It's a Gateway P7811-FX laptop with a single 200 GB hard drive. Before, I only had 1 main partition: the C: Drive (176.31 GB), along with the hidden 10 GB EISA partition. After making recovery disks, I followed this tutorial: Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life
Following that, I went in Disk Management. The hidden partition showed up, but I couldn't extend the C drive to use the unallocated 10 GB, so I converted it to a simple 10 GB volume. Then I used Acronis Disk Director Suite and merged the two partitions. And now, I can't do anything in Disk Management. There's only one partition now (186.31 GB), but when I right click on it, there's no options to create, shrink, delete, or extend the partition. They were there before, but the only option that shows up is Help.
Under Status, it says Healthy (Active, EISA Configuration). I think I merged the partitions the wrong way, so now there's no "System, Boot, Page File..." partition. Everything is on the EISA partition. When I try to run Acronis, the program doesn't load up. I've tried using Diskpart but I can't create any new partitions either.
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Jul 26, 2009
I've got a Hp computer that has Vista Home Premium 64 bit on it and I want to remove the partition D which is the recovery partition. I have factory backup dvd's, made my own backup dvd's and have a True Image of the drive with both partitions, so I think I'm covered. Anyone know how to go about removing the complete partition?
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Feb 17, 2009
I don't know if this is the place to post this thread so excuse me if this is the wrong group, I saw none that really applied. I'm running Vista SP1 64bit.
I'm looking for a Free Partition program to partition my external hard drive into at least 2 partitions. Does anyone know of such a program that's straight forward without all the bells and whistles? Also, would I set the partitions as Logical or Primary? Currently the drive is a Primary but if I partition it into 2 partitions what should they be?
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Mar 13, 2009
My C: drive is 1Tb in size (931.43Gb), with Used Space of 73.8Gb and Free Space of 857.65Gb. I want to shrink the C: partition down to 200Gb, and use this just for my OS and App files - I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. This would then leave me with a new partition of c. 750Gb for my data files and documents etc. However, Vista will only offer to shrink the C: partition by around 260Gb as a maximum. It will not allow me to select a larger size than this. I've tried turning off System Restore / Shadow Copies, but this makes no difference. Any ideas why this should be, and what can I do? p.s. I've tried using Acronis Disk Director as well, but whilst I can select a new C: partition size of 200Gb, when the system reboots, nothing has changed, so ADD won't work either.
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Mar 26, 2008
I've got a really weird scenario: I've installed Vista on one of my partitions, after a few days it got corrupted, so i've installed another version on a different partition (different disk as well). I've since deleted the first vista installation. Now vista works perfectly on my other partition, no problems. However, when looking at the disk management I can see that the old vista partition's status is:" Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)" whereas my working vista partition is: "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)" My vista partition is not a system partition. This causes some problems, as I can't format the old vista partition. Trying to disable the disk at startup and booting with the Vista DVD doesn't help (it recognizes some problem but when rebooting, nothing happens, no loading of anything).Is there a way to assign the 'System' attribute to another partition and/or to remove the 'System' attribute from a partition?
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Jan 8, 2010
I was wondering if anybody could help shed some light on an issue i've been having with vista (home version running on a Dell XPS 420)
I've set it up with 2 partitions (one with the OS and the other with everything else) My problem is that however big i make up the OS partition vista eats it like there's no tomorrow. I've left it at 40GB but already have around 9GB free......(i completely reinstalled from scratch on Tuesday) so just waiting for more massive updates from Microsoft and that'll be gone. The real trouble is that using the OS installation disk i was given with the machine i cant extend an active partition with out erasing and formatting the partition. Could anyone advise me how to do this without erasing any data? please dont say i have to buy partition magic! surely the chaps at Microsoft envisged this as a potential issue
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Mar 26, 2008
I am clean installing Vista Home Prem. on my Toshiba. Reinstall, actually. Do I need to install the OS on a partition? Are there any benefits to installing it on a partition? I am not planning on running multi OS on my system, just Vista.
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Sep 5, 2009
I have Ms Windows Vista Home Premium. Local Drive C: is at the momment is 429 GB Free of 465 GB I would like to partition it in 2, how to partition it ? I don't want to use other partition software, if posible I want to use from Vista it self,
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Sep 17, 2009
I installed Acronis true Image at one time, it created it's Secure Zone on the c drive, which was huge as i remember.
Anyway i uninstalled Acronis (too hard to figure out) but i think it left behind this 470 Gb partition on my c drive! It says "470 GB "unallocated" when i look at the drive, but that was not there before Acronis was installed' i'm sure.
How do i get rid of that partition, because i think it's uselessly taking up a huge amount of my space?
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Mar 23, 2008
I installed Vista in partition H: so I could dual-boot to XP Pro on C:. Now I'm ready to dump XP and I'd like to move Vista to C:. how to do this without losing anything?
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Sep 10, 2009
i had 3 partitions on my HDD. i backed them up and deleted them to make room for a custom partition. when i finished deleting them the disk management said i had 2 unallocated partitions. i checked in disk part and it showed only my "main" vista partition existed. my vista partition is "partition 2" and i was able to extend it into "partition 3" (one of the unallocated partitions) via disk management, but i cant add "partition 1" (also an unallocated partition) to my main partition.
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Apr 12, 2008
Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?
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Jul 29, 2009
I have a PC that causes trouble with Vista (old software does not run and stuff), so we want XP instead. My plan ist to install xxp into C:WINXP side-by-side with the C:WINDOWS of Vista, and remove vista afterwards. So I don't have to split the partition and can leave data untouched.
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Jul 29, 2009
I want to build a PC & I want to create a restore partition so that I can reinstall Vista anytime that I want to. How many gigabytes should the restore partition be? Is there a minimum size recommended by Microsoft?
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Dec 31, 2008
My computer tells me that there is low disk space on my D:Recovery Drive. What and how can i safely remove, and will it improve my performance?
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May 27, 2009
Is it poosible to make a partition permanently invisible & lock so that
if virus attacks or any other problem arrise it doesn't effect that
partiton n i easily store my important office data...
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Nov 7, 2008
i want to delete my Windows XP Pro partition on my HDD as i am running out of space, when i goto disk management in admin tools it doesn't give me the option to delete as it is non-clickable, i also want to merge the XP partition once i've deleted it. My OS is Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit,
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Apr 21, 2008
I have a partition on my laptop with Vista 64-bit as my main OS. The second partition is an XP build (32-bit). I want to resize the XP partition but the built in Vista disk management controls keep bringing back an error. I'm thinking about reformatting and putting on a 32-bit Vista. Any pointers or know how I can resize w/o formatting?
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Sep 12, 2009
I have a problem I can't solve I have a much needed 32 bit program that I cannot run in the Vista 64 bit environment and I need to know what the best solution is to this? Go back to XP? Set up a seperate partition to run a 32 bit environment?
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Nov 1, 2009
I currently have vista installed of course on my C: drive, but I want to reinstall to a partitioned drive at the moment it is called I: drive (reason a lot more space on I than is on C).
So I figure a clean install onto the current I: drive.
Now this is where I need help, I do not want two versions of vista on the same PC, I am guessing vista will remain on the current C: drive there by creating a dual boot?
So how would I go about deleting the current vista installed, and put it on my I: drive?
What would happen if I was to format the current C: drive, have my disk there at the ready, would that work?
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Jan 7, 2009
I have tried several times to create a new partition using Acronis Disk Director, and it fails with an error code I can't find any reference to.
So then I tried using the built-in tool in Vista to "shrink" my current partition, to allow me to create another. But the max available "shrink space" was something ridiculous, less than 1GB (and the drive has 75GB free).
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Nov 5, 2007
I am running Vista Home Premium on a Compaq Presario SR5152NX Computer with 2 gigs of memory. I have a 250 gig HD. My D Drive (my partion drive) shows in Red and says I have 828 megs left of a 8.83 gig space. So I thought I would need to extend the partition. I went into computer management / Disk Management and was going to extend the partition to make it larger. But when I tried to, the "extend partition" is greyed out. Is there an "extremely" easy way to extend the partition? I mean so easy that someone as dumb as me could do it?
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Apr 1, 2008
after installing PowerQuest Partition Magic 8 Demo on my notebook with Windows Vista Ultimate ITA SP1, I've lost the D: partition on my hard disk.In "Explore" I see only C:, and D: is missing.
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May 28, 2008
Does Partition Magic 8 work when installed in Vista?
When running from booted floppies?
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