How to partition hard disk on Vista

Partitioning hard disk free on Vista

"i bought a new HP LAPTOP with windows vista. in that i m having two drives one is C drive(120 GB) and another is D drive (40GB) . here i want to make a partition in my C drive without formating it. Is there any software to do this if not give me some steps to do it?"

Create, delete, set and format partitions efficiently with SystemSuite

There might be times when you want to create, delete, format, or validate a partition manually. For example, you might want to format a partition for data or delete a partition that is no longer useful to you.

SystemSuite, this PC maintenance utility software will come to help you manage partition at will! It offers you Rescue CD that allows you to access above features when you start directly from the Rescue CD.

In addition, SystemSuite's Advanced Tools allow you to make changes to the partitions, such as determining which partition is used for starting, hiding partitions from other operating systems, fixing the Boot File, and assigning SIDs.

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Guides: for you to partition hard disk on Vista.

The Rescue CD version allows you to format, delete, set the active partition, and make repairs or property changes to existing partitions, and create new partition from free space.

Starting up the rescue CD

Insert the Rescue CD and restart your computer, if you haven't made the Rescue CD, you also can use SystemSuite installation CD as a Rescue CD.

Step 1. Restarting the computer can take 15-30seconds to boot up.

Step 2. When the program first starts, it does a general scan to analyze your hard drives and partitions before displaying the Rescue Disk Wizard.
NOTE: If Vista doesn't start from the CD, check that the System BIOS is set to boot from a CD.


Select Manual Patitional option from the Rescue Disk options, you can also access the tools listed in the Wizard from the Start Menu. The Rescue Disk Start Menu looks and functions much like the Windows Start menu.


Partitioning hard disk on Vista

The Partitioning window always opens displaying the first physical drive, labeled as Drive 0 in the graphical display. The legend in the lower-right uses colors to indicate the type of file system installed on the partition. Both FAT12 and FAT16 partitions are displayed as FAT.

• The Select Disk toolbar section shows the selected drive information.
• The General tab shows the selected drive, partition information, and used disk space.
• The Details tab shows the same information, but shows cluster and sector information for the selected drive.

The Main Window shows the entire drive divided into partitions. The primary partitions on Vista are all on the left and logical partitions (partitions within a partition) if any, shown on the right. The logical partitions are contained inside of the extended partition.

Step 1. Click the desired partition in the graphical display to select it. An arrow appears to the left of the selected partition.

Step 2. Select the drive from the drive drop-down list to change vista drives (if you have multiple hard-drives).

NOTE: If you have more than three hard drives, you can select one of the first three drives by clicking the buttons labeled, 0, 1, and 2 on the Select Disk toolbar. Open the drop-down list to select from additional drives.

From the selected drive you can:

• Delete existing partitions.
• Create new partition from Free space.
• Use the Advanced Tools to perform a variety of tasks.

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