Unlike Windows XP, Windows Vista comes with built-in tool to help you creating partition on your hard drive on the fly. This feature comes handy especially to those who like better management of their enormous hard drive or perhaps to those who love to dedicate new partition for additional operating system like Ubuntu or even to test drive Windows 7 Beta.
Step-By-Step on How to Create New Partition in Windows Vista
1. Right click on My Computer > Manage. Double click on "Storage" > "Disk Management (Local)"
2. You should see something like in the screenshot below.
3. Right click on logical drive or any active drive and choose "Shrink Volume...". Specify the size of space (in MB) for your new partition from the chosen drive.
4. For the sake of this how-to tutorial, I allocate 2 GB of space for the new partition(s). Right click on the free space created from the previous step and choose "New Simple Volume...".
5. Click "Next" when a popup shows up. Specify the space size of the new partition.
6. Assign drive letter for your new partition.
7. By default, you will be asked to format the new partition. You don't have to change anything on this page unless you want to rename the new partition to, for example, "Local Disk" instead of "New Volume". Just click "Next" and click "Finish".
8. It will take while to complete formatting the new partition, depending on how big the new partition is.
Ok, now you are done (no need to restart etc). You can even use the new partition to store your movies and songs (virtually everything) right away!
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Thaaaaaaaank you man ;-)
Thanks
cool, thanks gotta try
dude this is awesome!
great stuff!!!
i did the same thing but at last it indicated me that there is no space to create a drive
When i create the new partition using the unallocated space it gives an error saying : the dynamic disks are not supported by the operating system
this is the 1st thing i did after turning my computer on. thx for the easy-to-follow instructions! (i’m viewing this from my nokia n800 while setting up my new laptop…)
My dell 1420 won’t let me create more than 4 partitions. Anyway around this?
Worked, thank you
yoooo….good job man..thanx..!!
Worked like a knife in a tub of butter.. very smoothly i was able to perform the action.. thanks…
Thank you. It was very helpful :)
I have a laptop with and Maxtor one touch III External HD
on a vista basic(that is why, vista BASIC!!! BOO! :( ) so i created a 50 gig partition on it (before that it had 174 gig) and am going to install ubuntu netbook remix on it, Thanks!
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why not shrunk c:\ drive?
Thanks a lot, initially i thought there is no way to add a second partition on my new Del laptop, but with your help i can keep my data same on partition. :)
I am an MIT student and didnt know how to partition .. what a shame.. u shud join MIT..i can recommend you .. thanks :)
thank u… i realy didnt know partitioning was so easy.it was really useful.