Vista - Change Partition Size

04-23-2008

I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted 10G
for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I have
used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only
~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C

at ~150gig, (D

at 10Gig and (e

at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition even
further, since that's >85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease
that partition even further.

Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve >100Gig for the OS? Or do I need
to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.

04-25-2008

Hi there,

As far as I know there is no limitation with vista on HDD space (as long as
you give it what it needs plus a healthy few gigs for page file etc)
Check out this site to help with resizing paritions
http://www.winvistaclub.com/t11.html

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"antnym5" <antnym5@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted
>10G
> for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I
> have
> used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
> partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only
> ~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C

at ~150gig,
> (D

> at 10Gig and (e

at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition
> even
> further, since that's >85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease
> that partition even further.
>
> Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve >100Gig for the OS? Or do I need
> to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.

**t-4-2** · 04-25-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by antnym5

I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted 10G
for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I have
used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only
~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C

at ~150gig, (D

at 10Gig and (e

at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition even
further, since that's >85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease
that partition even further.

Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve >100Gig for the OS? Or do I need
to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.

Hello antnym5,
follow the link below. It should help.

Disk Management - Shrink Partition

07-10-2008

You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition.
For example, you want to enlarge C: drive, which usually is Windows
system drive. EASEUS Partition Manager Personal lets you free enlarge or
reduce a partition in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server(Only Server Edition)
without destroying data easily.

for
more:http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...-partition.htm

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07-10-2008

You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition.
For example, you want to enlarge C: drive, which usually is Windows
system drive. EASEUS Partition Manager Personal lets you free enlarge or
reduce a partition in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server(Only Server Edition)
without destroying data easily.
for

more:http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...-partition.htm

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04-23-2008	#1 (permalink)
antnym5 n/a posts	Change Partition Size I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted 10G for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I have used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only ~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C at ~150gig, (D at 10Gig and (e at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition even further, since that's >85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease that partition even further. Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve >100Gig for the OS? Or do I need to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further? Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.
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04-25-2008	#2 (permalink)
Patrick Squire n/a posts	Re: Change Partition Size Hi there, As far as I know there is no limitation with vista on HDD space (as long as you give it what it needs plus a healthy few gigs for page file etc) Check out this site to help with resizing paritions http://www.winvistaclub.com/t11.html -- Patrick Squire http://www.msblog.org "antnym5" <antnym5@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:17039B90-7851-4609-B364-2E47753834CC@xxxxxx Quote: >I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted >10G > for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I > have > used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new > partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only > ~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C at ~150gig, > (D > at 10Gig and (e at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition > even > further, since that's >85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease > that partition even further. > > Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve >100Gig for the OS? Or do I need > to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.
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04-25-2008	#3 (permalink)
t-4-2 Home premium 32 bit, SP1 939 posts	Re: Change Partition Size Quote: Originally Posted by antnym5 I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted 10G for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I have used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only ~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C at ~150gig, (D at 10Gig and (e at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition even further, since that's >85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease that partition even further. Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve >100Gig for the OS? Or do I need to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further? Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle. Hello antnym5, follow the link below. It should help. Disk Management - Shrink Partition
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07-10-2008	#4 (permalink)
subinleo n/a posts	Re: Change Partition Size You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition. For example, you want to enlarge C: drive, which usually is Windows system drive. EASEUS Partition Manager Personal lets you free enlarge or reduce a partition in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server(Only Server Edition) without destroying data easily. for more:http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...-partition.htm -- subinleo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ subinleo's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=52707 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=955675 http://forums.techarena.in
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07-10-2008	#5 (permalink)
subinleo n/a posts	Re: Change Partition Size You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition. For example, you want to enlarge C: drive, which usually is Windows system drive. EASEUS Partition Manager Personal lets you free enlarge or reduce a partition in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server(Only Server Edition) without destroying data easily. for more:http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...-partition.htm -- subinleo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ subinleo's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=52707 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=955675 http://forums.techarena.in
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