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    How to partitionate my vaio?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by paulie.vaio, Jun 25, 2010.

  1. paulie.vaio

    paulie.vaio Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello!
    I just bought a new vaio VPCEB2S1E. I have only one partition C which is aprox 470gb. I want another partition about 400gb. I tryed to shrink the C partition using the windows 7 manage utility from my computer but it only shrinks the C partition to 250gb. I have installed partition magic 8 but it is incompatible with windows 7. Can someone plese tell me how to create my partition please ?
    PS How can i disable the VAIO update from startup, i searched msconfig.exe but i couldn't find VAIOUpdt.exe in the startup section nor in the services section. I have Vaio Update 5.
    Thank you in advance!
     
    paulie.vaio, Jun 25, 2010
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  2. AGabi

    AGabi Notebook Consultant

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    You can use Acronis Disk Director for manage partitions.
     
    AGabi, Jun 25, 2010
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    paulie.vaio, Jun 25, 2010
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    AGabi Notebook Consultant

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    Yes. It is working perfect. For W7 you need use 11th version ore 10th version on booting media.
     
    AGabi, Jun 25, 2010
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    I did it! Thank you for your help. I used Partition Wizard Home Edition, easy to use and Freeware! About thVista update it was set to launch at every logon from the Task Scheduler. Hope this helps somebody else...
     
    paulie.vaio, Jun 25, 2010
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    This link is to posts that were made in Jan of 2009!
     
    Jim C, Jun 25, 2010
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    Forget proprietary solutions. gparted is your friend.
     
    arth1, Jun 25, 2010
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