The latest version of PM is compatible with Vista, but you can download a
trial version of products to do the job from Acronis or Terabyte. Terabyte
is my choice, but is a little less user friendly, but works on 64-bit
systems, whereas my experience with Acronis on 64-bit systems is iffy but it
does work fine on 32-bit. Your choice, buy if it meets your needs for the
future but you can get your job done now free. :-)
"cryocynique" <cryocynique@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
> --
> 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:
>> >
>> >> 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
>>
>>
>>