Creating Partitions in Windows Vista

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Hi everyone!!!!

Just 2day i bought myself an HP Pavillion dv6314tx notebooks which has Windows Vista Ultimate pre-installed in it.
Now the problem that I am facing is that, The operating system is installed on a single partition of 142GB and there is another partition of 10GB, which is used as a backup.

Hp provided me with only 2 backup DVD's & I have no drivers for Windows XP. Now if i go about partitioning my drive to my liking, than I have 2 end up recovering my notebook with the recovery DVD'S and I end up again with a single usable partition (coz i cant work in XP without drivers)

Please suggest me any software that would allow me to partition my HDD from within the operating system (Vista)

Thanks..................

maybe partition magic might help , not so sure .
but the diskpart utility in vista can reduce the first partion's size and convert it to unpartitioned space which u can use to create other logical drives....

*apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

in the midle of the tut you'll find how to use diskpart .

did this with my hp in a similar situation ; just rt click my comp > manage > disk mgmt > rt click system drive > use option shrink/extend volume. etc.

created 2 new volumes. u can decide what u want

Do as anandk suggested OR Use Partition Magic in case u r new to such stuff

Thank u all 4 ur suggestion!!!!

I exactly did what anandk told me 2 & now m done

Thank u all

Shasanka_Gogoi said:
Thank u all 4 ur suggestion!!!!

I exactly did what anandk told me 2 & now m done

Thank u all

You are welcome