It is also recommended to partition only a hard disk or drive that has enough space available to shrink as some of the vista operating system files, that are used by the windows vista operating system OS , like page files or shadow copy storage area cannot be relocated.
That is all folks. You would have successfully partitioned the hard drive in windows vista, upon completing the above steps. Vista would have formatted your newly-created partition inside the Disk Management console.
I could shrink the volume to only half of its size. Say initially a 60GB dark disk can be shrunk only to 30 and I think this applies mainly to primary partition. Great tutorial. Can you repartition drives in Vista or do it have to be unallocated space? Nirmal, You can shrink the volume to whatever size that is available. Not necessarily half. This available space may further be restricted by snaphots and pagefiles enabled on that drive.
Aseem, Thanks and yes you can and that is what this article is about…you have to shrink an existing drive to create unallocated space and then use this space to create the new partition. Of course you can back up the disk, reboot with a DOS startup disk, and then use DOS FDisk command to repartition the disk, but then you'll have to reformat and reinstall, which is a lot of work. Fortunately, Windows Vista's Disk Management console tool will allow you to repartition your existing hard disk any way you want.
In other words, it will now allow you to shrink, extend, create, and format partitions without putting your data in jeopardy. Of course, before you perform any of these operations, you should back up, just in case. To access the Disk Management console tool in Windows Vista, you can either right-click on My Computer and select the Manage command from the context menu or you can access the Run dialog box, type Diskmgmt. As you can see in Figure A, this example GB hard disk is currently configured as a single partition.
To divide it into two partitions, right-click on the dark blue bar and select the Shrink Volume command, as shown in Figure B. When you do, the Disk Management console tool will check to see if there is enough free space on the disk to create a new partition.
As you can see, the value in the Total Size Before Shrink box indicates the current size of the partition and the value in the Size of Available Shrink Space indicates the maximum size that you can allocate to the second partition. As you can see in this example Shrink dialog box, the maximum amount of space that the Disk Management console tool can use for a second partition is 7 GB even though Computer shows that there is 61 GB of available space.
The reason for this discrepancy is that the size of the available space can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to and the location on the hard disk of page, restore, shadow copy, and hibernation files. The location of the files plays a big part here for the mere fact that these files are marked as unmovable and the Disk Management console tool is unable to relocate them. As such, if these unmovable files are located middle of the total amount of free space on the disk, only the amount of free space on the other side of the files will actually be available to the new partition.
The Disk Management Help file briefly mentions that you may be able to work around this scenario by moving the page file to another to another disk and deleting the show copies. However, after disabling the page file, disabling hibernation, disabling the System Restore, using Disk Cleanup to delete System Restore and Shadow Copy files, and defragging the hard disk, I was still unable to get more available space for the second partition.
Once you enter the amount space that you want to have available on the second partition in the Enter Amount Of Space To Shrink text box, the value in the Total Size After Shrinking will change accordingly. To begin, right-click on the partition and select the New Simple Volume command as shown in Figure F. Also, if you don't want the complete Ubuntu then you can also download only Gparted live cd for your purpose. Ubuntu also ships free CDs to your home.
Click here for more details. Hope this helps Hi All, I have done it!!! I got whatever partitions I wanted. I used the open source util "GParted". This has worked really well and is very easy to use. Not exactly!!! There can only be two primary partitions other than anoter third extended partition which itself is a primary partition. If you wish to have more than three partitions, you cna create logical partitions within the extended partitions.
So what I did was I created the firt two partitions and two logical partitions in the third extended partition! Very easy to use! This will ask you to provide the size of the partition you want to create. Click ok and you are done. I formatted using the NTFS file system. I still wonder!!! When I try to see the size in windows, so much of space seems to be missing. But GParted shoed it all as being used. But I don't still know where exactly is the space is being consumed.
Because when I un-installed some of the softwares that I wasn't using, I freed up 10 gigs and now it only shows 20 gigs as missing!!! Hello, There can only be two primary partitions other than anoter third extended partition which itself is a primary partition. This is not exactly true. As wikipedia says: A PC hard disk can contain up to four partitions. Each of them can be a primary partition and at most one can be an extended one. Other than that, I am glad that everything worked fine for you.
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