Partitioning: Windows Doesn't Seem To Be Satisfied With The 30GB
Nov 24, 2008
My husband's computer was set up at the release of Vista, so that's a while ago. At that time, he decided that a windows partition of 30 GB would be adequate. His computer has 2 physical disks. The second physical disk is set up just the way he likes it. The disk with the windows partition on it is set up as follows. 30 GB for the windows partition, 15 GB for his documents (seperate partition) and the rest is also a seperate partition.
The swap file is located on the second physical disk. I've recently found out that there is 9,7 GB of unallocated space on the windows physical disk which can't seem to be either added to another of the partitions OR allocated as a seperate partition (no clue why). The problem is that windows doesn't seem to be satisfied with the 30GB anymore, not with installed programs and stuff.............
i would like to create a partition on my hd. I have 2 drives- a recovery drive with 10 gigs and a normal c: drive with 140 gigs and 55 gigabyte spare. i want to make a partition on my c: drive of 27 gigs to install ubuntu but every method i try doesnt work. i tried left clicking on "computer" and clicking manage,then disk management and left clicking on the drive i want to shrink and clicking shrink volume but it says "there is not enough memory to complete the operation. save your work,close the other programs and try again." i closed everything and tried again but still no luck. i tried using acronis disk director and yet again still no luck. i tried freeing more space off my hd and deleted 3 gigs and tried again but still no luck ! i am very confused because i have nearly 60 gigs free space yet it still wont work. im running vista home premium 34 bit
partition on his 1 terabyte HD with Windows 7 premium installed. In Computeradmin. it shows: The HD is partitioned with: boot partition without a letter - 100 MB. OEM partition also without a letter - 20 MB.
C: partition, system - 945 GB.
D: partition, Recover- 20 GB
All partitions are Simple, fundamental, primary partitions. I did reduce the C-partition from 945 to 439 GB. Then I would make a new simpel partition on the unallocated part. I right clicked to create a simple partition, but it said all partitions would be converted to dynamic dishes. I would only have a simple partition, but there was no such choice.
Whenever I click the link to open an online radio station windows media player within internet explorer just says Ready - it doesn't even begin to buffer and doesn't play at all. Has anyone else experienced this recently?
Keeping data on a separate partition does not pose a significant advantage for me in terms of safeguarding the data, i.e., I backup everything on a daily basis. I also reformat on a regular basis and so the extra time needed to bring everything back to par is not an inconvenience - I actually enjoy it. Nevertheless, and here's my question, does having the OS on a separate partition really offer enough efficiency and performance gains to justify the partitioning? I realize this depends on how much enough is enough for my taste, but.
I have one drive which I want to partition. Can I partition while I am downloading things? Or should I stop all activity while the partitioning is taking place?
I recently installed Vista Ultimate 64 into a brand new self-built pc. The HD is 1TB in size. Vista put some 'unmoveable' files in the middle of the HD, and, of course, I cannot now reduce the size of the C drive down to the size I want it to be, as the C drive must contain the unmoveable files.
I partitioned my new computer 400 gig HD using Vista. It has put 180 gigs in C:, which I can't shrink further. It has 162 gigs available and I would prefer to reduce that to 90 gigs and use 90 gigs elsewhere.
My drive currently looks like this: I would like to take the unallocated space and Free space and turn them into a 40GB partition or otherwise add about 20GB each to the C: and E: drives. I tried the partition software here, but it wouldn't let add the free space and Unallocated space together. It would only let me format them into seperate partitions. It did say though that the Unallocated space is a primary partition, and the free space is a logical partition, if this makes any difference. The drive is 2 x 500GB drives in RAID 0, and I'm running Vista Business x64.
i just bought a new laptop and the 140 gig hd came partitioned into (2) 70 gig drives. Is it possible to enlarge the C drive and shrink the D drive at the same time?
was recently partitioning my friends toshbia Salitle laptop (P05-S6177) but something went wrong it could not find a file so we canceled it now i have a error message saying BOOTMGR is missing. Things ive tried Bootrec.exe including /bootfix/rebuildbcd i downloaded vista recovery cds tryed doing automatic repairs none of these are working And also vista came reinstalled so i do not have the serial key to reinstall it.
I will be using 100GB HD for Vista. I have never partitioned a drive before. I do have Partition Magic but have not looked at it yet. I was wondering if it makes sense to divide the HD so Vista is on one part but the other programs install on a different partition. Would that make reformatting Vista easier? If it is a good idea how much should be allocated to the Vista partition. Can Vista do it adequately or should I use PM for making the partitions. As you can guess I don't understand partitioning rules at all!
I have a Acer laptop and it has a C drive and a D drive (data). On the C drive it has 53.1 GB and my D drive 88.1 GB. I want to move about 20GB to the C drive. How can I do that when it won't let me extend volume on Drive C.
I just started running Vista Ultimate 64bit. I had a copy of Windows XP Pro, and I created all my partitions in that, when I upgraded I just formatted my drive C and installed Vista. I was told that I should not partition any drives that have partitions created in XP or earlier systems because it will cause the data to corrupt, due to the way Vista deals with the sectors of the hard drive. Is there any truth to this?
In which directory of the DVD of Vista SP1 64 bit I have to put the Autounattend.xml file in order to allow Vista to automatically erase and create the partitions of an disk?
How do you exactly partition a hard drive or can some one tell me a good place to get a partitioning program or website for a free partitioning program downlaod and what is a good program cause i want to get a good program and not a peice of crud.
Before you flame the thread saying partitioning capabilities are already included in x64, they are bad and limited. I cannot expand my system partition even with unallocated space on the drive sitting there unused. For example, i have a 750gb sata system drive which is partitioned into 3 spaces, my system partitionn, my media partition and unallocated space partition, i wanted to add this 100gb of unallocated space to my system partition so that it will have some headroom and space for further programs if need be. However vista ultimate's disk management does not allow this like partition magic used to. Of course partition magic is not compatible with vista[hurray] so i need compatible software to do so
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I have Vista Home Premium preloaded on a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a 320gb hard drive. I would like to isolate the OS from my data by shrinking the OS partition to 42GB and creating another partition for my data. However, Vista's partitioning utility says the minimum I can shrink the existing partition to is around 176gb. I suspect that even though I have defragged the hard drive, there is some part of the OS that is sitting on the drive out far enough to cause this. I can't verify this because Vista's defrag utility doesn't show you a map of the drive during defrag. Anyone know of a way around this?
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This isn't the first time Windows Mail had done strainge things. At present it show no messages but when I first click this newsgroup it show thousands of messages.
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