New SZ with 100GB or 120GB C partition - how to split it in two?

Vaio SZ come with one huge C partition. Of course this is risky and it would be better to have a partition D on which you keep your data.

Does anyone have an idea how to resize/split the C partition into two?

(Assuming that we don't want to spend 50 USD or more on the partitioning software which we would use just one and assuming that we do not want to reinstall everything from scratch)

 

Risky in what way?

I've always been curious as to why some people feel that splitting a drive into partitions is a good or useful thing... I mean it's still the same physical drive. Virii tend to work with whatever drives you have - many now even look for network shares. And if I want to sort my data, directories do just fine.

I actually follow the exact opposite system: I love that on my desktop PC I can take 4 physical hard drives and turn their combined size into a single massive honking super-fast drive (although to be fair I did turn 4 drives into 2 partitions: a 800gb RAID 0 for speed and a 400gb RAID 10 for speed and data protection).

As for the actual partioning thing: without paying for the partitioning software, I don't think there's any way it can be done while maintaining your current data. Otherwise, when installing XP from scratch, you can choose to delete the single existing partition and then create new ones of any size. It'll format the first one before installing XP, and then the rest you can do in XP's Administrative Tools later and assign them drive letters.

 

For example if your system gets corrupted. You have to reinstall the system. Having two partitions you will not need to delete anything from your D partition. Imagining that you have 50 GB of data there... it can still stay there while you reinstall windows..... in opposite case you would need to backup it if your corrupted system will let you do of course.....

 

Ive thought about combing my drives before but decided it wasnt worth the risk, maybe if I baught 2 smaller drives

 

Im not a guru so dont take this as 100%, without going the software splittig route your pretty much stuck to having to back everything up and reinstall,

(This is on a S)
I cant remember the specifics of what i did it, but i did a reinstall using the sony backup disks, got rid of there 6/7gb stealing (backup) partition and split the full hardrive into two equal partitions (C & D), which also gave me the option to stop all of sonys bloatware **** from reinstalling as well, after its recovered the xp part it reboots just eject the disk and remove the programme from the startup list that keeps trying to install all the bloatware (its already installed all the graphic drivers and power managent stuff with the xp recovery)

Its not what you were really after but i hope it helps a bit