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 CREATING PARTITION IN VISTA
i have an hp pavilion dv6700 laptop with vista home premium and 169GB drive...i have a root drive and a D drive which has Hp recovery in it....i wanted to create an E drive....what should i do for creating an E drive?

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ASKED: September 19, 2008  5:37 PM
UPDATED: June 22, 2011  7:41 AM

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I am sure you had a hard time creating additional drives in your older version of Windows. Vista and Windows 7 makes it very simple - you can <a href="http://www.partition-magic-windows7.com/res/create-partition-windows7.html">create partition Windows 7</a> and Vista just few clicks and there you go. You have a new born drive. Let me take you through the steps: 1. Lets click on Start and then click on Computer. 2. Right click on it and select Manage. That will take you to Computer Management screen. 3. Double click on Storage. 4. Now double click on Disk Management. 5. Right click on the drive and select Volume shrink. 6. Enter the amount you want to shrink to. 7. And now click on Shrink. Now you can see your free space like this: 8. Now right click on the free space and click on New Simple Volume. 9. Click on Next 10. Click on Next 11. Click on Next 12. Click on Next 13. Now click on Finish. 14. Once you click on Finish, your new drive is ready for you. Hey that was so easy. Now you can have as many drive you want and keep your data safe. ANother option is to enter the diskmgmt.msc command at Vista's Run prompt. When you do, Vista will load the Disk Management Console, which will show you all the drives in the system and how much unallocated space is on each drive. If you have unallocated space, you can create a new volume on it by right clicking on the unallocates space and choosing the New | Simple Volume commands from the shortcut menu. Another option is to install an additional hard drive into the machine. For some OEM laptop, there has been 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition (contains multiple logical drives), in such case, you cannot shrink large C drive to create partition, if you do that, you will receive error message: "you cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions". Learn more: <a href="http://www.partition-magic-windows7.com/res/create-partition-windows7.html">http://www.partition-magic-windows7.com/res/create-partition-windows7.html</a>
Last Wiki Answer Submitted:  June 22, 2011  7:41 am  by  Brien Posey   720 pts.
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