How To Parition your hard drive when using vista

[Alkanator]

can I do this on windows 7?

[AtwHelp]

I believe you can, I haven't looked at it yet on windows 7. But i am sure it is possible.

[AtwHelp]

@Alkanator WIndows 7 has the same ability as windows vista. The directions should be the same

[seetherfan1369]

yup, same thing AtwHelp said... its all the same process. click on start, type computer management and then go to disk management... easy peasy!

[reconrey1292]

It says i have 0mb for available shrink space :O plz help. i have 1 220gb hdd

[AtwHelp]

how much space do you have left on that hard drive? Vista requires a certain amount to be reserved.

[reconrey1292]

@AtwHelp i have 160gb left

[AtwHelp]

sorry for the late response, i replied back on my phone but i guess it never went through. if you are using the main hard drive vista puts locked files towards the end of the partition making it hard to split the drives. If you had a separate hard drive you could split them easier. There are other software's you could use such as partition magic.

[c1pro13]

great thanks a hole heap

one for programes, one for games, one for music, one for movies and no downloading of programes nessersery great work!

[xIRYIDA]

Can you answer this for me please, can i use this method and then put say a different OS on that harddrive i just created?

Thanks

[NinjaDKDavid]

Thanks, your video helped a lot. Will this make my Vista run a little bit faster?

[AtwHelp]

Partitioning in windows xp is not recommended when using your active drive. If you still want to do it, you would need to download partition magic. It will help split your drives.

[Riyabul]

We can partition hard drive in xp when using...pls help me

[AtwHelp]

If one of your partitions are empty, you can delete that partition. to do so press start, right click on my computer, press manage. click Disk Management. find your partition that you don't want and right click on it. Press Delete volume. Next find your active hard drive *the one with windows installed on it* and press extend volume. Now you can expand the volume to the size you want.

[shenzyB]

i got my pc back and they splitted my hardrive in 2, how to put it back in 1?

[AtwHelp]

What i am seeing is that you are at your last available space. You would need to defrag your hard drive so that all of the files that are scattered around your hard drive are closer together. Because Vista is Vista, it also locks certain files which makes it difficult to move in the defrag process. You would need to use third party software to accomplish this Or reformat your PC with backed up files and make the new sizes.

[77manos7Greece]

man help! the maximum size that i am getting to split is 1.7Gb and i have 30Gb free of 160GB!

[AtwHelp]

Some people organize their hard partitions. They would make a partition for software,games or music.

[yobemaL]

Thx alot, think i got a little to much space when i bought 1TP to keep my backup^^

[AtwHelp]

Be careful when installing Linux operating systems as they have a tendency to stay. It is difficult getting rid of Linux if you don't know how.

[ThatOneKidYouAllKnow]

thanks man i really needed this since im gonna install edora