That's part of the problem. I've used Partition Magic to do this kind of
thing for several years. But supposedly there aren't any versions of
Partition Magic that are compatible with Vista. That's why I'm scrambling
for alternatives.
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cryocynique
"DL" wrote:
Quote:
> To add to what JB posted, a third party utility eg Partition Magic will do
> as you desire without having to go through hoops.
> PS A fairly large data drive, you will be backing up all this data I trust
>
> "cryocynique" <cryocynique@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:E21719F5-5D94-4B5F-8913-20651380519B@xxxxxx Quote:
> > 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!
> > --
> > cryocynique
> >
> >
> > "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
> > Quote:
> >> 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!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Carey Frisch
> >> Microsoft MVP
> >> Windows Desktop Experience -
> >> Windows System & Performance
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> "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!
> >> --
> >> cryocynique
>
>
>