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    Dell Studio 15 - 1555 Disk Partitioning

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by nitingates, Jun 22, 2009.

  1. nitingates

    nitingates Newbie

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    Description of problem.
    I bought a new Dell Studio 15 - 1555 with 320 GB (7200rpm Performance Hard drive). It came preinstalled with Windows Vista Home Premium. I see two drives as C & D. C drive shows 260GB free of 282GB and D drive (Recovery) shows 8.83GB free of 14.9 GB. How can I create partitions of my own choice with the space left on the C Dirve?

    I believe the existing partition that I have are Primary partitions and the new one are also getting created as Primary, so its not allowing me to create more partition of my choice.

    Please help, how can I have atleast 5-6 partitions of 50GB each?


    Description of any troubleshooting steps you have taken.
    I tried to create a new paritition on C Drive by going to Computer Management - > Disk Managament and click on the C drive and selected Shrink Volume, I get the below info:

    Total size before Shrink in MB: 289686

    Size of avaliable Shrink space in MB: 93246

    Enter the amount of Space to Shrink in MB: 93246

    Total size after shrink in MB: 196440

    Once I have done this I got a new partition of 93GB and after that I am not able to further shirink the C drive.

    Is there a third party tool which someone has used to resize partition in Vista? Please suggest how can I have partition of my own choice?
     
    nitingates, Jun 22, 2009
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  2. lottdod_1999

    lottdod_1999 Notebook Evangelist

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    start, rightclick computer, hit manage, hit disk management under storage, youc an shrink a volume
     
    lottdod_1999, Jun 22, 2009
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  3. nitingates

    nitingates Newbie

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    I have already mentioned that I have done those and I cannot create a partition more than 93GB.. Is there a third party tool using which I can do it?
     
    nitingates, Jun 22, 2009
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  4. lottdod_1999

    lottdod_1999 Notebook Evangelist

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    oh yeah i didnt pay attention
    maybe acronis
     
    lottdod_1999, Jun 22, 2009
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  5. a55a55in

    a55a55in Notebook Enthusiast

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    windows partition utility wont let u shrink beyond a size. Use 3rd party app like Easeus or Gparted
     
    a55a55in, Jun 22, 2009
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  6. nitingates

    nitingates Newbie

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    Yeah I got it done. I was able to create partiton with Acronis Disk Director 10. I donwloaded it. It installed first and asked for a reboot. After reboot when I opened the tool, it gave me option of Resizing the C drive. I made 6 partitions out of 280GB. This tool worked like a charm, without any error. I first resized the C drive to 60GB and then committed the change. It rebooted the machine and did the disk resizing in the CUI mode and then logged on to Vista. When I checked I found C drive to be 60GB. Then I opened the Disk Director and found rest of the space unallocated. Then create more Logical partitions and when I committed, the changes happened there itself. no reboot was required and in 22 secs it created 6 NTFS partions 4 of them of 25GB and two of 36GB. Beautiful stuff!!
     
    nitingates, Jun 23, 2009
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  7. alastiar

    alastiar Notebook Consultant

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    is there a way that i can move some store space on C to D?
     
    alastiar, Jun 23, 2009
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