Vista - Disk Management - Shrink Partition

what program do you recommend for this Brink?

Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a good one.

HI, This seems like the perfect place to ask this
I have a dell laptop with the following partitions
63MB (hidden EISA config)
D:// Recovery
C:// OS Vista
2.5GB primary i guess media direct? see screenshot below

I want to set up a dual boot scenario without loosing anything on my c drive.

My question is can I use the built in disk management to shrink the C drive or do I have to get another 3rd party software like Acronis? (i dont want to loose anything on c).

Also I have 4 partitions so how do I go about this, what is the best to delete/resize etc?
Trying to prepare for Windows 7 when it gets released, Thanks.

My problem is not that I want to shrink or make a partition.
When I bought the hard ware for my home built computer, a friend
of mine installed vista home basic 64bit on a partitioned drive.
He only gave me 29 gigs for the os (c drive).
A "d" drive was made for my gaming drive
I'm running out of disk space on c drive. I currently show less than 2 gigs left.

What I'm hoping for is can space be added back onto c drive from the d drive
without loseing anything?

If not, I start all over again.
Thanks for reading this

Hello Cuff,

You will need to use a 3rd party disk management program like the free Easeus Partition Master Home Edition to be able to this without losing anything.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

The free edition is only for 32bit. I have 64 bit.
Thank you for your reply.
After doing some more checking within this site, I've seen a few programs that will allow me to do this.

Thank you
Ernest

Oh.

Hi Shawn!

First of all thanks for the graeat and to-the-point tutorial. Following the steps I successfully managed to shrink my C:// partition and create a new one - D:// I even transferred some data to it and it worked just fine. I switched of the computer over night and on the next day the newly created partition was gone. It can be found in the Disk manager as a primary partition, but when I right click no options are available - it just prompts to open the Help and suppport centre. Should I use a third party application to recover my data or is there any way to restore the partition. Thanks in advance.

Phil

Hello Phil, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management so we are sure of what the layout is?

You might also see if a simple restart of the computer may redetect the partition and have it available again.

Restarting the computer did not help.

OK, I'm sorry. Now it should work