On previous Sunday I bought a brand new laptop....and what I found...it already had Vista installed and there were just 2 partitions created ( c:\ -> 139 gb , d:\ -> 9.66 gb )....lot of space was wasted in c:\ .
As Windows Vista has a nice function for 'Volume shrinking '.... I have created new partition
( E:\ -> 40gb ) from old one ( C:\ ) without any data loss.
Let see how you can do the same :
1. Open Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer Management
2. Then go for Disk Management under storage tag:
3. In the right side pane, you will see all your Partition, right click on your specific drive, which you want to resize, as I want to resize my c:\, I have selected c:\
4. Select " Shrink Volume " , then wait for some second as it will querying volume for available shrink space.
5. Now after this, choose your new partition size (or leave it default ), then click on Shrink.
6. In the right side pane, you are now able to see your new created partition : as shown in following image :
7. Now Right click on that newly created partition, and then click on " New Simple Volume " in order to make it active.
8. After that, New Volume creating Wizard will open, follow the wizard and select your proper option.
9. After completion of Wizard, your Newly created Partition will be ready to use.
Resizing Partition in Windows Vista -
09-01-2008, 05:51 PM
09-01-2008, 06:26 PM
Thanks !
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