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    How to Create a Partition on Vista?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by degani, Oct 31, 2008.

  1. degani

    degani Newbie

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    Hey to all,

    I have Vista Home Premium, 32 bit, pre-installed on my 250 GB HDD in my new Dell Inspiron 1525.
    I want to create a second partition on the HDD, so that I will always be able to format the partition that contains the OS, without losing all my stuff.

    So far my attempts to do so using disk managment have failed. I am not able to shrink my hard drive at all and thus can't create a new partition.
    It claims that it have something to do with the pagefiles and/or snapshots.

    Can anyone guide me how can I overcome this problem or to show me another way to do it, pls pls pls....
     
    degani, Oct 31, 2008
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Have you tried Partition Magic or Gpartition?
    Both can configure and change the size of your partition, or generate new partitions right from the windows operating system.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Oct 31, 2008
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