Re: How to partition

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Not entirely correct John.

If you create the bootable CD from within Disk Director Suite and then boot from this CD the program does NOT see any locked system files. At that point you can anything that you need to do - without any impediment at all.

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"John Barnes" <JBarnes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eJqY1GAJJHA.4896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
John, since certain 'unmovable' files are not moved by Vista, the maximum you will be able to get on the new partition is the amount that you had when you just shrink either partition the maximum amount until the first unmovable file on the partition

"John Barnett MVP" <freelance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uVdEiW$IJHA.4512@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Somewhat more complex than that Erick and now I'm going to burst the bubble by suggesting you use third party partitioning software.

1. Shrink the C: drive (from the end of the C drive) from 150 down to 60
2. You now have a 60GB C: drive immediately followed by 90GB of unallocated space
3. You now need to expand your D drive (from the beginning of the D drive) to take up the 90GB of unallocated space, thus making your new D drive (temporarily) 440GB
4. Next shrink the D drive (from the end of the D drive) down to 220GB
5. You will now have 220GB of unallocated space 'after' your D drive
6. Finally create a new partition E in the unallocated zone (creating a partition of 220GB)


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"Erick" <erick17@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:UIOEk.196$oU2.116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So John, if I want C=60, D=220 and E(which doen't exist yet) = 220 coming from C=150 and D=350,

is the following method the way to proceed:

1. shrink C to 60 and D to 220
2. create E and allocate the remaining part which should be about 220???

Thanks for your help.

Erick



"John Barnett MVP" <freelance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O29PTg%23IJHA.5704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You can use the disk management tools that come with Vista (control panel>administrative tools>computer management>disk management). You will obviously have to shrink your D partition to enable you to create a new partition (after D:) in the newly created unallocated space.

Partition Magic is another one of Symantec's useless software applications and I gave up on Symantec products years ago. Partition Magic, as you have found out, will not run on Vista.

While I do use the disk management tools that came with Vista I have to say that I much prefer Acronis Disk Director. I also like Paragon Hard Disk manager Suite 2008. Of course these application are not free but either are well worth having.

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"Erick" <erick17@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:WJKEk.75632$QI5.64111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi evrybody,

My drive is partionned in 2 parts.
C is about 150 Gb
D is about 350 Gb

I would like to add 1 partition E and resize the others.

How can I proceed? Under XP, I had Partition Magic 8.0

Many thanks





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