Hard drive partition ... please help
By alokkumar803
@alokkumar803 (325)
India
October 1, 2010 3:11am CST
Hi..a have a dell studio 1555 ,(vista sp1)it came with two drives recovery(D:) 14.9gb and OS(C:)282gb i have installed all of my softwares and games in C drive..but now i want to partition C drive 108 gb are still free in C drive i want to make some new drives out of the free 108gb of C drive ..so that i can install XP on new drive..so please guide me how do i do partition of free 108gb of C drive..please help
2 responses
@sup3rdud3 (230)
• Indonesia
1 Oct 10
Partitioning a hard drive that's already filled with data is risky. You need to back up your drive/data before you attempt to create a new partition.
You can try to use a proprietary program such as Partition Magic to do this. However, it is recommended that you defrag your drive before you do this so that all the data in your hard drive is moved to the beginning of your drive.
I once did this when I installed Linux on a computer that already has windows with no problem so it is doable. I did not use Partition magic though. I used a freeware program that runs in DOS. I don't remember the name of the program.
