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    Shrinking c drive question

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by egold, May 17, 2008.

  1. egold

    egold Notebook Enthusiast

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    Evening everyone,

    I decided to shrink my c drive to create a data partition. After using the wizard I went with what vista said was the largest. It gave me a 81306 megs. the new partition shows 79.4 gigs unallocated. I right clicked on the drive clicked new simple volume.. went through the wizard clicked assign drive letter and format NTFS default file size, not the quick format. clicked ok and when I clicked finish, vista comes back with error not of enough space and uses up that drive letter. I tried clicking quick format the same thing happened.

    This is my first copy of vista amd I missing something here?

    I have a c, recovery d then a 2.5 g no drive letter primary again and a 85 gig EISA, whats this partition for?

    Thanks in advance
     
    egold, May 17, 2008
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  2. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    It's better to use from software like partition manager for such things.
     
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    egold Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the reply, I expaned the c drive back. It's just like M/s to put something into there OS and have it not work.
     
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    If you're using the default Dell partitioning, it already has four primary partitions -- The Dell diagnostics partition, the partition with Vista, the partition with the backup image, and the Media Direct partition. If you're trying to split the operating partition into two primary partitions, it's going to complain because it already has four. Even if you didn't already have four primary partitions, if your unpartitioned space is between formatted partitions, Vista will have problems.
     
    chelet, May 18, 2008
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  5. egold

    egold Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the reply, so could i shrink C then expand the recovery partition D to store data. I suppose the other option is just getting a UBS back up H.D
     
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    I have done following rearrangements on my Vostro 1500.

    Shrink C: drive from 146 GB to 30 GB.
    Create New Primary Partition of 10 from 116 GB Freed Space.
    Added this Balance 106 GB to the Existing Extended Partition.
    Created Logical Drives in this newly added space.

    Now I have WinXp, PCBSD & Ubuntu AND two Data Drives of 45 GB Each.

    I did all this using GParted in Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD.

    Hope this info will be useful.

    Cheers
    NarahariBabu
     
    NarahariBabu, May 18, 2008
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