Vista - Disk Management - Shrink Partition

Hi Friends,

I bought a new sony laptop last week which was having Windows Vista Business Edition. I have totaly 200 GB hard disc space and I tried to make partition, as mentioned in the forum, i didnt used any third party software to make partion, I just right clik my computer->manage->disk management then I right clicked and clicked the shrink volume it showed a dialog box and it has automatically shown some space, i didnt specifed my own space size. I just accepted the size which it showed, then i gave shrink. and its showing 100 GB in C drive and 76 GB as unallocated. I want to keep only 50 GB for C drive but now it is having 100GB, Is ther is any possiblity of making reshrinking this process (ie can I make it as a old one having 200 GB space in c Drive so that I can do the proces again carefully using some third party softwares

Please reply me back


Thanks in Advance,
Arun

Hi Arun, and welcome to Vista Forum.

Extend C: back into the new unallocated 76 GB partition. If it is no longer unallocated then Delete the new 76 GB partition first. This tutorial will show you how to.

Disk Management - Delete and Extend


Afterwards, do this tutorial again to shrink C: , but this time type in how much available free space you want to shrink C: by (step 6) to have only 50 GB total left. (1024 MB = 1 GB)

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Awesome...Honey, I shrunk the kid(C:/ only).
Help!!!
My D:\ is completely full. I have zero available space to shrink. What should I do now.
Please help.
Thanks

LOL, I like that Bennys.

I would say about the only thing you can do is to either start deleting what you no longer need on the hard drives to create more free space, or get another hard drive to use.

They have gotten pretty reasonable here lately though for some of these larger 750 GB to 1 TB drives.

How do I delete unnessary files in my D:/ ?
Thanks.

Bennys,

If your D: drive is a recovery partition, then it is best to leave that as is unless you have a Vista installation DVD to use to install Vista with instead. If you do, then you can delete the partition to wipe it out. Afterwards you can use it separately or Extend C: into it for C: to be a larger drive with more free space.

Disk Management - Delete and Extend

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks...I'll leave it alone. But why did it fill up so quickly? Is it because I ran CCleaner a few times and deleted the recommended file on my computer?
Anyhow, from ow on, where do the backup files goes?

If it is a Recovery Partition, then that is placed on there by the computer manufacturer (OEM). It is used for you to be able to do a clean install of Vista with. They are usually not very large in size. Some OEMs like HP has a HP Recovery Manager program that stores backups on this D partition. It would fill it up quickly, but it would delete the old backups as new ones were created when it runs out of space.


CCleaner would not have any affect on this partiton. Any file backups or System Restores you do in Vista would be stored on C: instead.

Cool!
Please assure my understanding. The D: drive will always be backing up new files but in order to do that, it must clear the old ones for new arrivals and I should not be worry about it, correct?
Thanks for the info.

If you have a OEM computer that has a Recovery Manager type program, then usually it is only about the same as System Restore. It will not backup your files like you are wanting.

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