[Tutorial] Creating Partitions in HP Pavilion Desktops & Laptops

[s18000rpm]

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

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).

• Select the Fourth Option, & click “Next”.

In the next screen, info is given about that option.

• In the next screen, select EXTENDED PARTITION under “Partition Type” & “NTFS” under “File System”.

• 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).

NOTE: When you move the Slider, it'll show you the New Partition's Size (in GB).

• Click “Next”, let the “HP PC Recovery Tools CD” create the new partition for you.

• Congratulations, you have successfully created a Partition.

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 (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]

Very Nice,reps to you(when I will be able to give you)

[NIGHTMARE]

thanks

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

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[s18000rpm]

why's its rated 18+???

[Arsenal_Gunners]

^^to attract more people

[uchiha.sasuke]

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]

^^ 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]

this "HP Recovery Tools CD" makes this whole Partitioning thing SAFE.

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.

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NOTE: When you move the Slider, it'll show you the New Partition's Size (in GB).

[koolbluez]

Nice.. but only for the HPs
Great start for a 1st tutorial
Rock on...

[s18000rpm]

^As many people have doubts in HP (branded) PC's for creating Partitions, so i made this tut Exclusively for HP users.

& 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.

[uchiha.sasuke]

have only three options :
Application& Driver recovery
PC Recovery
PC Recovery Disc Creator.

[anandk]

[Rollercoaster]

rating 18+ !!

hot stuff man...

[crystal_pup]

good one...Kip it up!!!

Cheers,
Kunal

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by anandk

how do u bring that best of luck smiley?

[Kiran.dks]

Good one for HP users. I knew it before... Keep posting

[s18000rpm]

Thanks guys

Originally Posted by The Unknown

how do u bring that best of luck smiley?

here you go Smiley Arena - emoticons/signs

[rakeshishere]

Nice Post!

[Vishal Gupta]

Very detailed and nice tut.

[salils]

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]

not only your laptop, but others too dont have this option.

i'll soon find a solution for it

[salils]

is there any solution??

[s18000rpm]

maybe XP CD? (not recovery disk)

[uchiha.sasuke]

but my laptop doesn't detect XP cd.......even when i set cd rom as first boot device...

Originally Posted by vimal_mehrotra

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I wonder what happened if Vimal becomes censorboard chief. Would he ban all movies and other stuff .

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by salils

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??????

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

not only your laptop, but others too dont have this option.

i'll soon find a solution for it

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.