How to Resize Partition in Windows Vista

Posted by Hari Maurya on Sep 1, 2008 in Tips & Tricks, Windows How-To, Windows Vista | 0 comments

On previous sunday i bought a brand new laptop….and what i found…it had Already Vista installed and there was just 2 partition created ( c:\ -> 139 gb , d:\ -> 9.66 gb )….lot of space were wasted in c:\ .
As Windows Vista has a nice function for ‘ Volume shrinking ‘….i have created new patition
( E:\ -> 40gb ) from old one ( C:\ ) without any data loss.

Let see how you can do same :

  1. Open Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer Management

  2. Then go for Disk Management under storage tag:

  3. In the right side pane, you will see all your Partition, right click on your specific drive, which you want to resize, as i want to resize my c:\, I have selected c:\

  4. Select ” Shrink Volume ” , then wait for some second as it will querying volume for available shrink space.

  5. Now after this, choose your new partition size ( or leave it default ), then click on Shrink.
  6. In the right side pane, you are now able to see your new created partition : as shown in following image :

  7. Now Right click on that newly created partition, and then click on ” New Simple Volume ” in order to make it active.

  8. After that, New Volume creating Wizard will open , follow the wizard and select your proper option.

  9. After completion of Wizard, your Newly created Partition will be ready to use.

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Hari Maurya is presently pursuing BE in Information Technology from Mumbai University. He also holds Diploma in Information Technology field.

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