When does it make since to partition a hard drive then? Only whe you have a
Recovery partition or have two operating systems? I hear what you are
saying, but academically, if there is an answer to my original question, I
would still like to know the answer. I tried use defrag.exe to see if some
kind of a disk map would be displayed, but it told me I needed to use an
administrator command prompt. Any one know how to get that?
Thanks!
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cryocynique
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
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> Purchase an external hard drive and perform periodic backups to it.
> It does not make any sense to have data on a separate partition
> that is on the same hard drive. If you hard drive should fail, you'll
> lose everything!
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience -
> Windows System & Performance
>
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>
> "cryocynique" wrote:
>
> I have Vista Home Premium preloaded on a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a 320gb hard
> drive. I would like to isolate the OS from my data by shrinking the OS
> partition to 42GB and creating another partition for my data. However,
> Vista's partitioning utility says the minimum I can shrink the existing
> partition to is around 176gb. I suspect that even though I have defragged
> the hard drive, there is some part of the OS that is sitting on the drive out
> far enough to cause this. I can't verify this because Vista's defrag utility
> doesn't show you a map of the drive during defrag. Anyone know of a way
> around this?
>
> Thanks!
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> cryocynique