Creating a new hard drive partition for Vista

coolbho3000 · External Since: Jun 12, 2006 Posts: 19

I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.

I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't work
and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day. (Yeah,
that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)

Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort to
reformat.

Thanks!

Andre Da Costa [Extended6 · External Since: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 1910

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"coolbho3000" <coolbho3000.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.
>
> I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't work
> and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day. (Yeah,
> that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)
>
> Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort to
> reformat.
>
> Thanks!

coolbho3000 · External Since: Jun 12, 2006 Posts: 19

I want some other programs, because I'm afraid Partition Manager does not
format NTFS drives (which I want Vista to fuction under). Besides, I want a
partition larger than the 30gb+ that FAT32 gives me.

Thank you!

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> http://www.ranish.com/part/
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> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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> "coolbho3000" <coolbho3000 DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CF418F8B-C757-43B2-B6CE-C1AAB319BA71@microsoft.com...
> >I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.
> >
> > I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't work
> > and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day. (Yeah,
> > that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)
> >
> > Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort to
> > reformat.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
>

Peter M · External Since: Jun 09, 2006 Posts: 11

You can do it from the Vista install as long as you have a free partition or
the free space and are doing a custom install and not an upgrade from a
previous OS. Even under something as old as dos fdisk, just partition and
leave unpartitioned the space you need for vista. Vista can format
unallocated space on install.

"coolbho3000" <coolbho3000 DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want some other programs, because I'm afraid Partition Manager does not
> format NTFS drives (which I want Vista to fuction under). Besides, I want
> a
> partition larger than the 30gb+ that FAT32 gives me.
>
> Thank you!
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
>> http://www.ranish.com/part/
>> --
>> Andre
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
>> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>> "coolbho3000" <coolbho3000 DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CF418F8B-C757-43B2-B6CE-C1AAB319BA71@microsoft.com...
>> >I need help creating a new hard drive partition for Vista.
>> >
>> > I tried using a Linux LiveCD and using a utility there, but it didn't
>> > work
>> > and caused a disaster. Thankfully Windows check disk saved the day.
>> > (Yeah,
>> > that's one way Windows is better than Linux. Surprising!)
>> >
>> > Any free Windows applications that can help me? I don't want to resort
>> > to
>> > reformat.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>>
>>
>>