Vista - New partition in Vista home basic?

Hello,
I am trying to find out if this would help or harm, and, if it would help, how to do it. I am wondering if it is possible that I could create a new partition on my Vista home basic just for storage for pictures and document files mainly. If I could do this, would it help the speed of the computer? If so, how would I go about doing this? And, once stored in the new partition, would I be able to open them as normal? I already use flash drives, etc for storage, but have run out of room on both of those, and just cant afford to buy more right now. I need to speed up this pc, and I know the vast number of pictures and documents and scans I have on here are probably the main culprit for slowing it down. (I do genealogy, and ebay- and have huge number of pictures relating to both, as well as text documents, .rtf files, .pdf files, .doc, etc).
Advice and/or directions would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Nancy

Yes you can do it, no it won't speed up your computer in the least. Without
knowing the specs of your computer no additional advise can be offered

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Nancyb1962 <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
Yes, you can do it.

No, it will not speed up your computer.

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Yes, it is possible but you would be best to use 3rd party software like
Acronis Disk Director.

No. it will speed nothing up. It just allows for more sorting options..

If your computer was pre-installed with Vista, the full recovery method, if
used, would wipe out all of your data including any partition that you
create. It is therefore imperative that you back up all user data onto an
external drive or use your CD/DVD burning software to dopy user data onto
CD/DVD.

You would also require Acronis Disk Director again to recreate your data
partition, so the expense of buying it may not seem like such a bad idea..


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"Nancyb1962" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:f4452d7ea44302009bc028446bcf3e83@xxxxxx-gateway.com...You can create a new partition for your Data as you suggest but it wont help
speed up the Pc.
However its always a good idea to keep your personal data seperate from the
O/S partition.
For a start it will be easier to see all your data when seperated from the
O/S cluttered file system and you can make backups easier as its will all be
in one place with its own drive letter.
I always use a partition manager like Acronis or Paragon although you could
use the Vista Disk management.
Unless you are fully competent then get someone knowledgable (PC Tech) to do
it for you.
I would make a full system backup (image) first using Acronis TI or similar.
Next you need to shrink your Boot partition `C` drive down by the amount
required for your Data but leave plenty of space for vista. Have a look at
the free space avaialable on your `C` drive then work out what will be left
after you add a Data partition. If there`s not enough space then maybe buy a
second hard disk to use for your data.
With the `C` Volume shrunk you have to create an Extended partition within
the free space.
After that just create a logical drive which should be your `D` drive.
Remember this will alter your drive letters on all other drives above and
could cause problems so you may need to re-assign drive letters.
Finally you will need to move all your Data across from `C` drive to `D`.
useing Windows exlporer file manager right click properties/ location and
move facility on each folder.
Good luck...
Graham.......

Thanks to all who answered. I think I will just stick to moving it all to flash drives as I have been. Thanks again!