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    Resize my partition for windows 7

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by fluffboy, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. fluffboy

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    i plan to install windows 7 beta on my laptop tonight but i have one problem i cannot resize my current partition with the built-in vista disk manager. I know that the maximum is 4 partitions but i only have 3...can anyone help me?
     
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    Try to defrag your harddrive !
     
    Danv, Jan 13, 2009
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    ill try that right now and try again...ill post back here
     
    fluffboy, Jan 13, 2009
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    I'm having problems creating a partion, once I'm in Vista's disk manager I get a popup saying it failed to intialise the hard drive and something about a virtual drive or something and that my firewall might be blocking something (I can't really remember the message anymore and it's not showing up anymore). Anyways, I'm not seeing any drives in the disk manager so I can't really do anything.
    Anybody have an idea?
     
    WCASD, Jan 13, 2009
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    hope you have not disabled some Vista services, as Virtual Disk & comp., otherwise Storage Manager is working fine for me in Vista (resizing/shrinking partitions and so...)
     
    cowgaR, Jan 14, 2009
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    i fixed it...i just booted mandriva linux and used the partitioning program on it. Running vista 7 and its very stable/snappy! :D
    thanks
     
    fluffboy, Jan 14, 2009
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    yeah I disabled quite some services and other stuff (partially from the NBR vista guide), guess it's close to impossible to find out which one is responsible for this problem amiright?
     
    WCASD, Jan 15, 2009
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