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    How to Partition my DV2282ea vista

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bigspin, May 25, 2007.

  1. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    I have only single partition and it's 149GB huge.I want to partition it .Is there any program to do it from vista .I try to shrink it.But vista not allow it because page file on that partition. Vista only allow me to shrink 5420MB .

    Sorry for my bad English......
     
    bigspin, May 25, 2007
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    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    Before we start,
    Don't use Partition Magic it's does not work on Vista.
    Many partition managers like Paragon Partition can do the partition work for you.But some might not work.Make sure you use one that can work on Vista partitions.
     
    mujtaba, May 25, 2007
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    popextra Notebook Consultant

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    Strange. Vista has a built in partition program that works quit well. that's what i used for 160gig dv2000. please use try and use that one.
     
    popextra, May 29, 2007
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    I know Vista have partition program .Its not allow me to shrink my primary coz page file run on that partition .
     
    bigspin, May 30, 2007
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