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    Acer 8920G partitioning help

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by surfguy17, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. surfguy17

    surfguy17 Notebook Geek

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    hi all i was just wondering i just got this laptop on wednesday and its pre-partitioned 320GB drive into two 160's is there any way to partition it further? whats the easiest method?
     
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    CQSTELUSH Notebook Consultant

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    The easiest method is to resize it from Disk Manager. Right click, shrink...

    I, personally, have: 25 GB for Vista, 25 for other OSes, 40 for Program Files 2 and 200 GB for data. The rest... is a hidden partition, where I save the Vista's back-up.
     
    CQSTELUSH, Jul 12, 2008
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    where do i find disk manager im pretty novince to vista since i just got it on wednesday i was using xp before
     
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    Right click on My Computer, Manage, Disk Manager.
     
    CQSTELUSH, Jul 13, 2008
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    thanks will give it a shot
     
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    just had a quick question if i do shrink it is there any way to un shrink it after and would it be better if i just got another drive put in it? (if theres space for one)
     
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    if anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated :)
     
    surfguy17, Jul 14, 2008
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    If you put the space you make by shrinking to use, you will have to free
    it back up to expand it.

    James
     
    jc55, Jul 15, 2008
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