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Re-partitioning drives with windows vista?

Discussion in 'HP' started by bluetoooth, Dec 29, 2007.

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hi,
i have a pavilion dv6560, came with a 160 GB HD and windows vista preinstalled. now there are two drives C of approx 141 GB and D with the recovery tool of 7.17 GB to be precise.

I learned that partition magic doesnt work on vista (havnt tried it though)

and some friends recommended 'diskpart'.

now the trouble is, i didnt really know what to do when i opened 'diskpart'. :s

its a dos based program with multiple options.

i would highly appreciate if someone could tell me a way to divide the 'C' drive in atleast 2 drives. (141 GB is a hell of space wasted)

and i DONT want to format the drives

Thanks in adv...

bluetoooth, Dec 29, 2007

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please guide me through step-by-step procedure of using 'diskpart' if u can......

bluetoooth, Dec 29, 2007

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I would recommend GParted. Download the live CD and burn it to a disc. Then put it in your drive and boot from CD. It has a GUI and is pretty easy to use.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

(As always backup any important data before (re)partitioning and it's a good idea to defragment you hard drive too.)

BobSock, Dec 29, 2007

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