Partition hard drive on HP laptop

[Guest]

I have a HP nx9005 laptop with 30gb hard drive. I want to partition the hard drive but the primary partition is the same size as the whole hard drive. How do I reduce this partition to allow me to then use the unallocated space. I dont want to format the hard drive. Any ideas

Wizardofeden

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

A 3rd party program is needed. Partition Magic is a good one. There are
others.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Cerridwen]

I have a HP nx9005 laptop with 30gb hard drive. I want to partition
the hard drive but the primary partition is the same size as the
whole hard drive. How do I reduce this partition to allow me to then
use the unallocated space. I dont want to format the hard drive. Any
ideas?

Wizardofeden

You need a disk management utility. I use Partition Magic 8.