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[Tutorial] Creating Partitions in HP Pavilion Desktops & Laptops

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s18000rpm
s18000rpm Original post #1
Feb 28, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Tutorial

Creating Partitions in HP Pavilion Desktops & Laptops


What you need
  • A blank CD. (not Re-Writable).
To create a Partition, first you need to create a “HP PC Recovery Tools CD” (a type of Boot CD).

Creating a HP PC Recovery Tools CD
  • Click “Start -> All Programs -> PC Help & Tools -> HP PC Recovery Tools CD.”
  • The “HP PC Recovery Tools CD” window opens, select “Create the Recovery Tools CD” -> “Next”.
  • Now follow the on-screen instructions for creating (burning) the CD.
Refer these pics.

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Now lets get to business :D

Creating Partitions

Insert the newly created “HP PC Recovery Tools CD” in the CD Tray & restart the PC.
Now the PC will boot using the CD (like Live OS).
  • In the first Screen, you are given FIVE options, they are
1. Remove recovery partition. (Never Do this)
2. Start PC Recovery program.
3. Run Microsoft Recovery Console
4. Create a new data Partition
5. Instruction. (read this if you need help).
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  • Select the Fourth Option, & click “Next”.
In the next screen, info is given about that option.
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  • In the next screen, select EXTENDED PARTITION under “Partition Type” & “NTFS” under “File System”.
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  • Move the Slider to Extreme Right Position, under the Slider you can see the New Disk Size to be created. (moving the slider, tells the system to create a partition of the indicated size).
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  • Click “Next”, let the “HP PC Recovery Tools CD” create the new partition for you.
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  • Congratulations, you have successfully created a Partition. :D
Now when the system Reboots, remove the CD quickly (just when BIOS screen comes). Lets the System boot into Windows XP, now XP will identify the new Drive & ask you to “Reboot” to install it properly, so reboot again.

Now for Creating more Partitions from that BIG Extended Partition, use any software you like for that purpose or use the Windows XP’s inbuilt feature for creating “Logical Drives”.

I used "Paragon Partition Manager 5". (Free, full version)
get it from here- FREE FULL VERSION DOWNLOAD thread.

If you need more help on creating more partitions, feel free to ask:).


Special Thanks to Mr.Vista:D (Vishal_Gupta) from whom i've learnt a lot about Partitions.:)
& also to Kiran_tech_mania for informing us about that Paragon Partition Manager Software.



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Arsenal_Gunners
Arsenal_Gunners #2
Feb 28, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Very Nice,reps to you(when I will be able to give you:p)
NIGHTMARE
NIGHTMARE #3
Feb 28, 2007 at 10:34 PM
thanks
s18000rpm
s18000rpm #5
Feb 28, 2007 at 10:48 PM
why's its rated 18+??? :D
uchiha.sasuke
uchiha.sasuke #7
Feb 28, 2007 at 11:16 PM
my harddisk is of 100 gb capacity. C: drive is of 83 gb and D: drive is of 9 gb and 1 gb unpartitioned .....now in C: drive size of free space left is 53......so wat shud be d min size for c drive now......and its safe naaaaaaaa....................i have data in C: and i dont wanna to loose it agn...as i have already recover my pc 2 days ago.......
Aberforth
Aberforth #8
Feb 28, 2007 at 11:27 PM
^^ Defragment your C Drive before you resize and patition it. And back up files just in case, however sure you might be things do go wrong sometimes. ;)
s18000rpm
s18000rpm #9
Feb 28, 2007 at 11:28 PM
this "HP Recovery Tools CD" makes this whole Partitioning thing SAFE.:wink:

it calculates as to how much space should be allocated for new partition. (the "Slider thing").

In my case [80GB HDD], my C: Drive was 68GB, & D: Drive = 6.41, when i used this CD to create new partition, C: drive was resized to ~16GB. (used space was around 4-5GB) & resultant new partition was ~52GB.

so its a pre-calculated thing, your C: drive will be resized according to the Space used.:wink:

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Edited

NOTE: When you move the Slider, it'll show you the New Partition's Size (in GB).
koolbluez
koolbluez #10
Feb 28, 2007 at 11:43 PM
Nice.. but only for the HPs :(
Great start for a 1st tutorial ;)
Rock on...
s18000rpm
s18000rpm #11
Feb 28, 2007 at 11:52 PM
^As many people have doubts in HP (branded) PC's for creating Partitions:), so i made this tut Exclusively for HP users.:D

& for Assembled PC users, they can create the partitions using the "XP Installation CD" itself. In HP PC's this cant be done, as ONLY two "PC Recovery Disks" (DVD) are provided, which inturn has VERY LIMITED function.:wink:
uchiha.sasuke
uchiha.sasuke #12
Feb 28, 2007 at 11:55 PM
have only three options :
Application& Driver recovery
PC Recovery
PC Recovery Disc Creator.
anandk
anandk #13
Mar 1, 2007 at 7:53 PM
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Rollercoaster
Rollercoaster #14
Mar 1, 2007 at 8:53 PM
rating 18+ !!

hot stuff man... :)
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crystal_pup #15
Mar 2, 2007 at 10:12 AM
good one...Kip it up!!!

Cheers,
Kunal :p
nileshgr
nileshgr #16
Mar 2, 2007 at 10:28 AM
anandk said:
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how do u bring that best of luck smiley?
Kiran.dks
Kiran.dks #17
Mar 2, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Good one for HP users. I knew it before... Keep posting :)
s18000rpm
s18000rpm #18
Mar 2, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Thanks guys:):):)


The Unknown said:
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Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #20
Mar 3, 2007 at 1:03 AM
Very detailed and nice tut. :)
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salils #21
Mar 4, 2007 at 9:04 PM
what is the s*** with my hp laptop dv2117 as have only three options :
Application& Driver recovery
PC Recovery
PC Recovery Disc Creator.
Now what can I do??????
s18000rpm
s18000rpm #22
Mar 4, 2007 at 11:25 PM
not only your laptop, but others too dont have this option.:(

i'll soon find a solution for it:)
S
salils #23
Apr 11, 2007 at 5:03 PM
is there any solution??
s18000rpm
s18000rpm #24
Apr 11, 2007 at 5:15 PM
maybe XP CD? (not recovery disk)
uchiha.sasuke
uchiha.sasuke #25
Apr 11, 2007 at 6:01 PM
but my laptop doesn't detect XP cd.......even when i set cd rom as first boot device...
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thunderbird.117 #26
Apr 11, 2007 at 6:03 PM
vimal_mehrotra said:
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I wonder what happened if Vimal becomes censorboard chief. Would he ban all movies and other stuff :D.
Kiran.dks
Kiran.dks #27
Apr 12, 2007 at 10:37 AM
salils said:
what is the s*** with my hp laptop dv2117 as have only three options :
Application& Driver recovery
PC Recovery
PC Recovery Disc Creator.
Now what can I do??????
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s18000rpm said:
not only your laptop, but others too dont have this option.:(

i'll soon find a solution for it:)
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Actually it's not esssential to have a HP recovery tools option to create partitions on your HDD. Even the non-HP users too can make partitioning by the following method:

1. First make your C drive free.
Eg. You want to partition your C drive to 15GB. Then, clear up all the remaining space.
2. Get Paragon Partition Manager.
Use "Recovery Media Builder" in it to create a CD bootable Paragon partition manager.
3. Restart Windows and boot it via created CD
4. Now you can partition your HDD.