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To Shrink a Partition |
1. Open the Control Panel. (Classic View)A) Click on the Administrative Tools icon.2. Click on Continue in the UAC prompt.
B) Click on Computer Management.
3. In the left pane, click on Disk Management under Storage. (See screenshot below step 4)
4. Right click on the volume (EX: C:\ ) your want to shrink and click on Shrink Volume.5. You will now see this for a moment. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: It is verifying that there is enough free space on the disk to create a new partition.6. Enter the amount of space in MB (1024 MB = 1 GB) to shrink by, from the available free space on this volume, for the new partition and click Shrink. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: 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 new second partition.Warning
The size of the available space can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to on the hard drive for the virtual memory page file, System Restore max size, and hibernation files. The location of the files on the hard drive plays a big part here because these files are marked as unmovable, and Disk Management is unable to relocate them. As such, if these unmovable files are located in the middle of the total amount of free space on the disk, then only the amount of free space on the other side (to the right) of these files will actually be available for the new partition. This will result in you showing that you have x amount of free space, but not being able to use it for your partition. The only way around this is to use a 3rd party hard drive partition management program, or setup the partition when installing Vista.
If you wish to force the partition to shrink, then see: the How-To Geek: Working Around Windows Vista's "Shrink Volume" Inadequacy Problems 7. After a few minutes, you will see the new unallocated (unformated) partition. (See screenshot below)
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To Create a Partition |
8. Right click on the new Unallocated partition and click on New Simple Volume. (See screenshot below)9. The New Simple Volume Wizard will now appear. Just click on Next. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: This wizard will make the new unallocated partition usable when finished.10. Enter the volume size you want for the new partition and click Next. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: Unless you are going to shrink this new partition, you should use the Maximum disk space in MB.11. Dot Assign the following drive letter. (See screenshot below)A) Select a drive letter for the new partition.
B) Click on Next.12. Dot Format this volume using the following settings. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: This may take a while to format the new partition volume.A) Enter a name for the new partition under Volume label.
B) To save time, check Perform a quick format.
C) Click on Next.13. Click on Finish when the Succesfully Completed window pops up. (See screenshot below)14. You will now see the Disk Management console with the new partition volume ready to be used. (See screenshot below)15. Close Computer Management.
16. Click on Computer in the Start Menu and see your new partition volume. (See screenshot below)
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