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    Partition Acer HD

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by edbro, Feb 27, 2011.

  1. edbro

    edbro Newbie

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    I have a new Acer 5742 that came with Win7 Home Prem and a 640GB hd. I want to partition the drive to have a C drive for the OS and Programs and a D drive for all else. I tried Windows disk manager and PartedMagic and neither will allow me to resize the drive to create a new partition. The drive has a hidden recovery partition.

    I tried imaging the C drive with True Image. Then I tried restoring to another HD I temporarily installed. It booted to grub and wouldn't go further. I just wanted to test on the spare drive to see if it would be safe to reformat the original.

    I want to be able to be able to preserve the Windows installation (image?) and be able to reformat the entire drive. I don't care to keep the recovery partition if I can get a valid image of the os to restore. Is there any way to do this?
     
    edbro, Feb 27, 2011
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  2. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    Will you provide a screenshot of Windows Disk Mananger, please?

    Were you ablel to shrink C: at all? or just not enough?
     
    anseio, Feb 27, 2011
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