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| 856560 | 2010-02-09 04:53:00 | I have bought a new PC, with Win7. I want to partition the 500GB hard drive into smaller volumes. I would like my C drive to be about 60GB - however, I can't shrink the existing C-drive volume to anything smaller than 244GB. What's happening here? | colmack (2939) | ||
| 856561 | 2010-02-09 05:20:00 | Well, repartition and do a fresh install | pctek (84) | ||
| 856562 | 2010-02-09 07:19:00 | I have bought a new PC, with Win7. I want to partition the 500GB hard drive into smaller volumes. I would like my C drive to be about 60GB - however, I can't shrink the existing C-drive volume to anything smaller than 244GB. What's happening here? Same here. When I looked at partitioning my 1Tb drive (930 odd Gb free), using the W7 disk management, it would only shrink it about 50%, to 460-odd Gbs. I guess we need to use a non MS tool to go smaller? |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 856563 | 2010-02-09 07:28:00 | You could try EASUS partition master (http://www.partition-tool.com/) if your windows 7 is not 64 bit - worked for me on an XP drive | TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 856564 | 2010-02-09 07:40:00 | Mine is W7 Home Premium 64 bit. | Grimy (3041) | ||
| 856565 | 2010-02-09 07:44:00 | Boot a Gparted CD and use it gparted.sourceforge.net |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 856566 | 2010-02-09 08:05:00 | Just use Disk management to shrink the C drive as much as you can - if it won't go small enough, try a defrag. | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 856567 | 2010-02-09 21:59:00 | Is it one huge partition? I hate that its ridiculous when you need to put your data somewhere while you obliterate windows I use puppylinux with Gparted. I have heard of people causing vista to not boot by modifying existing partition sizes though. |
pkm (13527) | ||
| 856568 | 2010-02-10 07:08:00 | Yeah I'd defrag it first, fully, then boot a LiveCD and have something like Gparted defrag it and shrink it again .. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 856569 | 2010-02-10 07:15:00 | Check the C drive for a big swap file & or a hiberfile. Switch off Hibernation and reduce the swap file to a custom size, say 200mb. Reboot and then try again. Left to its own devices W7 will make a hidden 1st partition of about 100mb which it calls a system partition, then the 2nd partition which is the 'C' drive. I have 3 computers with W7. One I let setup partition the drive & the other 2 I partitioned with Gparted in the normal way (1 system primary only). They all perform very well so its optional. |
mzee (3324) | ||
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