Partitions in Vista

[gpse]

hey guys, I have one hard drive with 1 partition with Vista right now.
In the XP days I used Partition Magic to create a second partition, but Partition Magic wont work in Vista, how do I create a second partition in Vista without losing any data??
With partition magic and XP it was no problem, but I have no clue how to in Vista 32bit.


Thanks

 

[Navid]

You can do a lot more with the included disk manager in Vista compared to that in XP.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.c...-87326ef4f4cc1033.mspx

 

[gpse]

I tried that method but it only allow's me to shrink 6GB,
I need like 40GB or so. My hard drive has 80GB free, I Dunno why it is restricting me to only 6GB.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: gpse
My hard drive has 80GB free

How exactly have you figured that out?

 

[ViRGE]

If you don't mind futzing with Linux a bit, try the gParted Linux live CD.

 

[gpse]

right clicked on my hard drive in Windows explorer.

 

[Pirotech]

I'm not sure you want to spend money on new disk management software but look at Acronis Disk Director. It supports Vista. I use it for XP, but my friends use it with Vista and have no problems.

 

[bigi]

Vista has decent partition management built in. Also, if you run PM as admin and in XP compatiblility mode it should work...