Vista - Disk Management - Shrink Partition

Hi Qwerty,

I have not used these programs myself, but Acronis should be able to safely create the partition you wanted.

Shawn

Hello I have problem to format my new partition this error is :you can not create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum of the partition.

Hello ARTADJ,

It sounds like you have reached the maximum of 4 primary partitions for a single hard drive. To regain the space you will need to extend the drive to the left in Disk Management back into this space.

Sorry,
Shawn

Thanks Shawn can you explain for me what can i do now ?can i make new partition or no?
Again thanks for your answer.
I have dell inspiron1525 laptop i have only 2 partition one of them is recovery drive D
and one of them is drive C Total hard drive capacity is 150GIG 10 gig for recovery and 136 Gig for Drive C.and i want shrink Drive C and add another drive like F.

Quick question - I want to shrink capacity in one partition and add the space to an EXISTING partition. Is that possible?

I'm trying to have 1 large primary partition on my hard drive. (OS and data) and one small one (web server data). I don't "get" why Dell produces a hard drive partitioned like they did mine, below. If someone can clue me into why they did it this way, maybe it's best to leave it as is. But for now, I don't get it.

I have the following:

C: 288 Gb
D: 298 Gb
E: 10 Gb

I'd like:
C: 550 Gb
D: 50 Gb

Can I do this by shrinking D to 0 and allocating 40 to E: and the rest to C:?

Thanks,

Nutts0327

Hi nutts0327, and welcome to Vista Forums. You will need to copy anything you do not want to lose from D: & E: to C: , then delete D: and E: . Now, Extend C: into all of the space from D: & E: except for 50 Gb to make that the new one large 550 Gb C: drive. Next, create the new simple volume with the left over 50 Gb space for the new D: . It's a bit of a shuffle, but it should do the trick for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

ARTADJ,

How much space were you trying to allocate for this new F drive from C ?

Since you only have two partitions, you should be able to shrink C: and create a new simple volume with that shrunk space as the new F: drive.

Brink, thanks. After posting my note, (not knowing you'd respond so quickly!) I tried shrinking D: and Extending C:. It wouldn't let me do this. "Extend" was greyed out as an option when I selected C:.

I might have left off an important detail - you tell me. Both E: and C: are on "Disk 0" and D is on "Disk 1" when I look at it in the Disk Management tool. I believe that this is still physically a single hard drive but cannot swear to it unless I open the tower, which I'd prefer not to do, as it may invalidate my Dell warranty.

I didn't try to "delete" drive D: as you suggested yet. Before I do, I just wanted to make sure I disclosed the Disk 0/Disk 1 point. Let me know if that changes anything (like if there were a rule that you could only extend a partition that's on the same drive, or if there's no way to shrink/extend at the drive level...)

Thanks, and thanks for such a quick response.

Nutts0327

Nutts0327,

LOL, yeah that would be an important detail.

It would depend on if it is two drives or not. If it two drives, then you would only be able to combine C & E.

If it is one drive, then D was created using some 3rd party program to make it a Extended Partition. To delete the D partition if you cannot delete it from Disk Management:

1. Open command prompt.
2. Type Diskpart.exe and press Enter.
3. Click Continue for UAC prompt.
4. In new DISKPART command prompt window, type select d: and press Enter.
5. Type partition d: and press Enter.
6. Type delete D: and press Enter.
7. Type Exit and press Enter.
8. Close the original command prompt window.
9. Delete the E partition in Disk Management.

You should now be able to what was described:

Shawn,
drive c has a 83 gig free but when i want a shrink drive c the maximum space available is 29gig i dont now why but i want 50 gig for my new partition .