superaymond Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 i know everyone now a days just use folders.. but i have a good feeling i ll be formating my c drive in the future.. anyone know a quick and save way of spliting the space in c drive to 2 drives in total (c and d drive)? Dark Phoenix Clan Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 You can do this easily with the program partition magic. Or if your running Windows Vista it has it's own partitioner. Right click my computer > Manage > Disk management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaymond Posted August 26, 2007 Author Share Posted August 26, 2007 ok the vista one is confusing.. wat am i supose to do there? Dark Phoenix Clan Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Ok, this should help a little bit. Select the drive you want to partition. Shrink do the left over space is what you want your new partition to be. After doing that you will see unlocated space, right click and click create. Format it as NTFS or FAT32 if using an older operating system (win9x or earlier). Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaymond Posted August 26, 2007 Author Share Posted August 26, 2007 y is it tat i can only shrink42.55gb?? Dark Phoenix Clan Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2d2 Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 or you can write the files you want to a disk or flash drive and not risk bringing any viruses not in those files with you... There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.Appreciate Bacteria! It's the only form of culture some people have.The brain's right side controls the body's left, so only lefties are in their right mind.School! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 or you can write the files you want to a disk or flash drive and not risk bringing any viruses not in those files with you... Yeah because a flash drive can backup a whole hard drive. A cd or dvd can do it too :roll: . He would not bring a virus with him unless he copied the system files which is where viruses usually install to. To the OP the only reason I can think of that can be causing the limit on the shrink is Vista is reserving space for other things. Such as reserving 10% of the drive for the recycle bin, page file (stated in picture). Another thing is I think Vista requires 40GB minimum in the system requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaymond Posted August 27, 2007 Author Share Posted August 27, 2007 thanks guys ok i used thie QParted program.. and got it done.. this is before i read ur new msgs.. do u think c drive might be smaller than recommended?? Dark Phoenix Clan Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 thanks guys ok i used thie QParted program.. and got it done.. this is before i read ur new msgs.. do u think c drive might be smaller than recommended?? If it's working, it's fine. The hard drive supposedly is suppose to be atleast 40GB for Vista, and yours is above that, so it's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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