Partitions on harddisk

[Scott]

I have a big hard disk of 320 GB in which there are two partitions: C for
application & data and D for recovery. Can I create one more partition for
data storage from application programs and OS and call it as D drive using
any utility in Vista Home Premium and change the existing D for recovery to
E. Your advice is appreciated.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Rock]

I have a big hard disk of 320 GB in which there are two partitions: C for
application & data and D for recovery. Can I create one more partition for
data storage from application programs and OS and call it as D drive using
any utility in Vista Home Premium and change the existing D for recovery to
E. Your advice is appreciated.

Yes use disk management. Rename D to E, shrink the E partition, then create
a new one from that space, and assign it as D.

Right click My Computer, manage, disk management.

 

[Scott]

Rock,

Thanks for your advice. I do not understand why I need to shrink partition
E as partition C occupies nearly 300 GB of the hard disk. Should I shrink
partition C instead of E?

Scott

 

[John Barnes]

Yes, shrink your C partition. Make sure your recovery process works with
the changes before you get too far. You don't want to find yourself with a
problem and have to wait for the vendor to ship you something before you can
recover.

 

[Rock]

Rock,

Thanks for your advice. I do not understand why I need to shrink
partition E as partition C occupies nearly 300 GB of the hard disk.
Should I shrink partition C instead of E?

Scott

Shrink which ever one your want. I had assumed the D partition was larger.

 

[Scott]

Thanks for your useful advice. I have shrinked the drive C from about 300
GB to 185 GB and created 107 GB as drive D successfully. I would like to
shrink the drive C to less than 100 GB since currently there is a space of
147 GB on drive C and give all space to drive D. However, the disk
management cannot allow me to shrink any more. Is there any reason not to
allow me to do it?

Thanks,

Scott

 

[John Barnes]

If you have unmovable files on it, they may be in the middle of the
freespace. These may be the pagefile or the system restore files. You can
move the pagefile to your D drive and not have one on C, but I don't know of
a way to move the others. You should do a defrag before you try your shrink
the next time.

 

[Rock]

Thanks for your useful advice. I have shrinked the drive C from about 300
GB to 185 GB and created 107 GB as drive D successfully. I would like to
shrink the drive C to less than 100 GB since currently there is a space of
147 GB on drive C and give all space to drive D. However, the disk
management cannot allow me to shrink any more. Is there any reason not to
allow me to do it?

"Scott" wrote

Depends on where some unmovable files are. You could try reducing the size
using the command line tool diskpart from an elevated command prompt.
You'll have to spend some time figuring out how it works but I was able to
use it to shrink a volume more than what disk management would allow, though
I don't think it was the system volume and there was no page file on it.

Type diskpart. Then when the command prompt appears as DISKPART>, type
help.