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Need help creating partitions in Vista

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redhat
redhat Original post #1
Jan 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I recently purchased a Dell laptop with 320gb HDD. But it came with two partitions, a 10gb backup partition and the remaining in 1 partition. I wish to partition this huge one into smaller ones. I entered disk management in administrative tools and clicked on split partition. But it showed a max split size of 80GB while around 250gb is free on that partition. I even shifted the pagefile to the other partition but to no avail.
Someone pls help me on how do i split it into 230gb n 80gb?
P.S. to clear confusion, the disk management will let me create a new partition of 80gb but i wish to store my documents n data files on this new partition n not on a system partition.
vamsi360
Jan 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
use GParted Live CD
Dark Core
Jan 25, 2009 at 4:03 AM
@redhat
You can also use Partition Magic too., User friendly software
redhat
redhat #4
Jan 25, 2009 at 6:03 PM
no way to do it using inbuilt tools??