Creating a new hard drive partition for Vista

Posted: 06-08-2006, 10:25 PM

coolbho3000

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I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.

I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't work
and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day. (Yeah,
that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)

Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort to
reformat.

Thanks!

Creating a new hard drive partition for Vista

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Re: Creating a new hard drive partition for Vista

Posted: 06-08-2006, 10:43 PM

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>I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.
>
> I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't work
> and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day. (Yeah,
> that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)
>
> Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort to
> reformat.
>
> Thanks!

coolbho3000

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Re: Creating a new hard drive partition for Vista

Posted: 06-09-2006, 12:12 PM

I want some other programs, because I'm afraid Partition Manager does not
format NTFS drives (which I want Vista to fuction under). Besides, I want a
partition larger than the 30gb+ that FAT32 gives me.

Thank you!

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> http://www.ranish.com/part/
> --
> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> "coolbho3000" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
> >I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.
> >
> > I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't work
> > and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day. (Yeah,
> > that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)
> >
> > Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort to
> > reformat.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
>

Peter M

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Re: Creating a new hard drive partition for Vista

Posted: 06-10-2006, 02:11 AM

You can do it from the Vista install as long as you have a free partition or
the free space and are doing a custom install and not an upgrade from a
previous OS. Even under something as old as dos fdisk, just partition and
leave unpartitioned the space you need for vista. Vista can format
unallocated space on install.

"coolbho3000" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I want some other programs, because I'm afraid Partition Manager does not
> format NTFS drives (which I want Vista to fuction under). Besides, I want
> a
> partition larger than the 30gb+ that FAT32 gives me.
>
> Thank you!
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
>> http://www.ranish.com/part/
>> --
>> Andre
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
>> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>> "coolbho3000" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]..
>> >I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.
>> >
>> > I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't
>> > work
>> > and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day.
>> > (Yeah,
>> > that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)
>> >
>> > Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort
>> > to
>> > reformat.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>>
>>
>>

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