Creating Partitions in Windows Vista

[Shasanka_Gogoi]

Hi everyone!!!!

Just 2day i bought myself an HP Pavillion dv6314tx notebooks which has Windows Vista Ultimate pre-installed in it.
Now the problem that I am facing is that, The operating system is installed on a single partition of 142GB and there is another partition of 10GB, which is used as a backup.

Hp provided me with only 2 backup DVD's & I have no drivers for Windows XP. Now if i go about partitioning my drive to my liking, than I have 2 end up recovering my notebook with the recovery DVD'S and I end up again with a single usable partition (coz i cant work in XP without drivers)

Please suggest me any software that would allow me to partition my HDD from within the operating system (Vista)


Thanks..................

[sagargv]

maybe partition magic might help , not so sure .
but the diskpart utility in vista can reduce the first partion's size and convert it to unpartitioned space which u can use to create other logical drives....

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

in the midle of the tut you'll find how to use diskpart .

[anandk]

did this with my hp in a similar situation ; just rt click my comp > manage > disk mgmt > rt click system drive > use option shrink/extend volume. etc.

created 2 new volumes. u can decide what u want :-)

[rakeshishere]

Do as anandk suggested OR Use Partition Magic in case u r new to such stuff;)

[Shasanka_Gogoi]

Thank u all 4 ur suggestion!!!!

I exactly did what anandk told me 2 & now m done


Thank u all

[rakeshishere]

Thank u all 4 ur suggestion!!!!

I exactly did what anandk told me 2 & now m done


Thank u all

You are welcome :)