Partition windows hard drive vista

This available space may further be restricted by snaphots and pagefiles enabled on that drive. Aseem, Thanks and yes you can and that is what this article is about…you have to shrink an existing drive to create unallocated space and then use this space to create the new partition. You can shrink, extend, create, and format partitions.

What do you mean when you say that you could never change the size of a partition in vista? Infact in vista, you can resize the partition extend or shrink the volume size , without loosing data and without the need for a third party tool like Partition Magic.

But backing up your data, in the drive that you want to partition, is always a good practice, before you actually carry out the partition. When I tried to shrink my C drive, the primary partition and Vista installation drive it didnt allow me to reduce the size of C below its half value. I think you got my point. I have a gb disk, gb free but vista does not indicate any space to shrink. Any ideas? Have disabled account control and as far as I know am logged on as an administrator.

Thanks for any help. Hi, I would like to partition my hard disk which is GB running with vista having a free space of gb. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Currently you have JavaScript disabled. In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page.

Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Related Posts. After April 11, , Windows Vista customers will no longer receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates from Microsoft.

Microsoft has provided support for Windows Vista for the past 10 years, but the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources towards more recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver great new experiences. Before you upgrade to Windows 10, backup data is needed, so when a new disk is plugged in, we can do the following steps to make a copy of the original disk:. For users who have deep love in Windows Vista and don't want to do any upgrade to Windows 10, who only want to repartition hard drive to enlarge C Drive capacity, Partition Expert can help when the system partition runs out of space:.

For security reason, Microsoft still advises us to upgrade Vista to Windows 10, not Windows 7 or Window 8, but the safer system Windows