Delete OEM Partition
Can I use Disk Management in Ultimate 64 to delete the 1st partition on the drive - OEM partition? Dell XPS Gen 5 compu...
Can't access emachines T5062 recovery partition
I messed up my registry and had to reformat. I went to my recovery partition but could not use it. So I used my recovery...
Trying to Partition Vista Hard Drive
Help!Trying to shrink or partition hard drive on Vista HP to load XP to run some programs. Computer only 2 mos. old has...
Pfade ändern - vista auf 2. Partition
Hallo,ich habe ein image meiner vista boot partition (C:) auf eine andere partition (E:) geklont. Im vista-bootmanager h...
Freeing up space on C partition
I'm trying to free up space on my C partition--I have about 25% left (8.5 gigs free out of 30). My Windows folder is ta...
Moving free space from one extended partition to the Vista p
seeing lots of conflicting advice and problems with this. I have C: partition (Boot, Windows etc) and E: partition (data...
Bad Partition, can any one Help Please
Hi. I'm using Ultimate Vista x64 and i have a 500GB WD hard drive that i have the vista installed on. Originally the dri...
question about installing second partition and activation
I have a machine that came with Vista Ultimate 32-bit pre-installed. (IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad) I have recovery disks that w...
Is there a built-in tool in Vista to partition a disk?
Tried to install partition Magic 8 on Vista and failed Is there a built-in tool in Vista to partition a disk?...
How to recover lost partition in Vista
HiI am having an IBM notebook which came with vista home basic pre-installed. Using VIsta disk management, I made partit...
Expand my Vista partition
I have a problem!! I recently purchased a new Hard Drive that has storage space 250 gb and i partitioned drive such: C:V...
What Exactly Is In The Presario_RP Recovery Partition?
Hi,How much recover information is in the Presario's recovery partition, PRESARIO_RP? Is there enough to fully restore...
Re: how to make a partition for windows 7 on Windows Vista S
The safest thing by far would be to buy and fit a second hard disk. They are very cheap. You can even unplug your exi...
Moving default data folders to another partition
I have re-installed Vista on my machine and created two partitions, one for the Operating System & Programs and the...
new partition
Originally the 2nd non-OS disk contained two primary partitions fully allocated to drives D and drive G. I shrunk both ...
HP Recovery partition
Hello. A family member recently got a laptop, which she's more or less been abusing (e.g. not shutting down properly). ...
Change/delete system partition after BitLocker removal
I installed BitLocker and it's preparation tool left me with new system 1.5Gb partition labeled as S: Since this letter...
Error 0X80070571 - D: Partition Corrupted
I keep posting this problem as I continue to seek an elusive solution. My D: drive (the second, logical partition of m...
c-partition is to small
What can i do if i want to change this. My other partitions (D, E) are much bigger. But C is too small! -- kame Posted ...
could not create a partition on disk 0
hi all got a problem with installing vista home basic (what a suprise)i have an icom shell and the recovery disc came wi...
Drive partition
I have an Acer aspire 5715z series which as its hard drive partitioned into two 30gig partitions. I would like to know, ...
Logical Drive to Primary Partition in Vista?
I would like to know how to change a Logical Drive to a Primary partition in Vista. I have 2 HDD's so I don't ...
Partition Management--How do you label Partitions via Disk M
Recently a poster (Andy ) wrote in response to someone who was trying to format with DiskMgmt and found the format opt...
Why does a fresh Vista installation create a partition at LB
Hi,XP created partitions that were aligned by cylinders, or in the case of the first cylinder, it would skip the mbr tr...
Help restoring backup to new partition
Vista crashed on me the other day, and I used the recovery option to try to fix the errors. Instead, a new partition wa...
Partition Program
I don't know if this is the place to post this thread so excuse me if this is the wrong group, I saw none that really a...
Vista isn't recognising other OS on partition.
Hi, i've just installed XP pro 32x on my 70GB partition, and have Vista Ultimate 64x on my 160GB partition.I installed t...
How resize the partition
Hi,I have this problem:My SATA hd with Vista 32 Ultimate is 160GB Maxtor. On this hd I've created 2 NTFS partitions:C:\ ...
Please Help! Messed up Hard Drive from using Partition Magic
I wanted to use partition Magic to partition my hard drive, so I used the boot CD. When I loaded it up, it said that the...
Vista ultimate on partition
i have a computer (Pentium4 2GB 3GHz) i have 2 partition areas, one for windows, one for linux, i can only install wind...
cannot change partition ID after repair startup from install
Hello,I have an Acer laptop which is partitioned with a 1st part OEM (hidden and not active, partiton type ID 27) the s...
Can Vista access XP software raid stripe partition ?
HiI am planning a dual boot vista / xp system with twin 250gb hard disksIn XP I will use the trick on toms hardware to e...
Partition problem?
Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2. Vista is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volum...
Moving Applications To A Separate Partition
Hi,Is there a clever way to move applications to another partition without having to reinstall them? I have walked thr...
deleting partition
I just bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium and when I got home I discovered that it's 120GB hard-drive had been div...
install XP after Vista on same partition
Hi,I have a PC that causes trouble with Vista (old software does not run and stuff), so we want XP instead.My plan ist ...
Re: Partition Lost
I've got a similar problem. In DiskPart I get:detail partitionpartition 0 Type : 05 Hidden : No Active : NoThere is no...
ACRONIS DISK PARTITION EXPERT- Download help
hi all Can anyone tell me where can i download acronis disk partition expert free full veriosn..withou pay ;)....it woul...
formatting partition in vista
i wan't to install another OS in my newly created partition in my Vista. but im not sure which to select in formatting: ...
Create Disk Partition / Dual boot?
Question: How do you create a disk partition in Vista Home premium if the disk is not dynamic? I would like to install ...
Moving "Documents" to another partition
Hi,I've just bought an HP laptop with Vista on it (soon to become Win 7). The hard drive has a "documents" se...
Partition Extern Harddisk Questionandhelp
Hello :)well i'm going to ask my questions first so i can get my help. well i want to use my external hard disk on my Wi...
Vista Partition Tool - will not shrink partition
Hi allMy C: drive is 1Tb in size (931.43Gb), with Used Space of 73.8Gb and Free Space of 857.65Gb.I want to shrink the C...
Invalid partition table
I have a Toshiba Laptop which came pre-installed with Vista home. Lately, I have received an Invalid partition Table on...
Resize system partition in Vista
I have done an extensive search on the internet for information on how to resize my Vista system partition (C: drive) in...
Lost partition
I originally had installed Windows XP Home, Windows Vista Ultimate, and Linux Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" onto one pa...
Partition Modification
When I built this computer I used 2 x 320GB hard drives (SATA) in a RAID 0 config. I have Vista Ultimate x64 on 1 parti...
installed vista on the wrong partition
i installed vista on my D: drive .. i was supose to install it on my primary C: drive ..is there any way to uninstall vi...
[Pony Help] Moving a Data Partition between Drives?
My Vista laptop came with a 200GB 7200RPM hard drive that was partitioned into two partitions: Windows and Data. This is...
Setting Up A New Partition
I have a new eMachine D620-5133, Model No. MS2257, which is made by Acer. The operating system is Window Vista Home B...
Vista in Unallocated Partition
I was attempting to dual boot XP with Vista installed first on a laptop. I used partition Manager 9 and was trying to de...
Set up a disk partition to run XP?
I have a problem I can't solve... I have a much needed 32 bit program that I cannot run in the Vista 64 bit environment...
How can I merge C:\ with another partition?
Hi,I'm one of those people who thought it would be a cool idea to partition 20GB for Vista out of a 320GB hard drive for...
Partition Magic 8.0 Does it work?
Cannot get partition Genius to recognize my SATA drives (recognizes everything else).Will partition Magic 8.0 work with...
Cannot resize partition (acces denied)
Hello, Here's my problem: I try to resize my partition (the c disk it's called in this case) which is around 1,4 TB lar...
Extend primary partition using Gparted
I have 19.1 GB of unallocated space that I want to allocate to my C drive containing Vista. The inbuilt Disk management ...
Partition Performance
I am receiving a new computer this Friday which will be running Vista Business 64 bit. It will contain a 500 gb Sata 2 ...
Trouble with a syetem partition
Hello,I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle. I used to run my system with windows xp, at the time and still ...
HELP! plZzz Partition Magic error #110, 105. Vista cannot l
I just got my Dell Vostro and the first thing I do is running partition Magic 8.0 to try to do a partition on my hard dr...
create a recovery partition
hi!i have a problem i have a dell laptopdell inspiron b120 1.40GHz 2GB 100HDD and i won't to create a recovery partition...
Vista64 VSS storage - redirection to other partition ?
Hi,is there possible to redirect Vista shadow copy service storage to other partition with cluster size >=16 kB ? My ...
Trying to Partition My "C" Drive
Hi, I am new to Vista. I have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Vista Home pre-installed and with 250GB.. I would li...
GPT partition not recognized
I've installed Windows Vista Ultimate x64 with almost no problems, except for one.I dual boot with another operating sy...
"Windows cannot format the system partition on this drive"
Can anyone help?I have reinstalled Vista today. I have 2 drives and installed Vista on C.I want to format D but get the ...
Hard drive partition
G'Day All,I have ordered a new PC that will have a single 300MB HDD (C:).I plan to add a second 300GB HDD (D:) when the ...
partition layout & logical vs primary for vista64?
trying to set up a new computer to dual boot xppro32bit & vista64bit.i got xppro on there but have been having trbl ...
Create OEM recovery partition
I recently had to change my hard drive because the original one got bricked.I was wondering how to make the recovery dri...
Shrink partition - Access denied
Home Premium - logged on as an Administrator, went to Disk Management, went to shrink partition, got Access Denied. No ...
Unable to access a partition after upgrading from xp sp3
I decided to upgrade to vista today and after the installation I was unable to access one of the partitions on one of m...
Shrink problems/partition problems HELP
Hi, I replaced my 160gig hard drive with a 320 Samsung. I used TrueImage to make a clone and it has been fine for a mo...
Removing a Boot file from a Partition that is NOT being used
Hi, I was having problems with VistaHP and thought that I could kill 2 birds with one stone by adding a new Hard Drive ...
Vista logical drive and partition size discrepencies
Hi all,I wanted to clone my old drive onto a larger drive. I used dd to copy the entire disk to the new drive, then I ...
Partition Magic 8
Does partition Magic 8 work when installed in Vista?When running from booted floppies?...
Partition Question
I've never had to deal with Parttions before so forgive my ignorance....I am using Vitsa Home Premium and decided to dua...
Increase a partition size in Vista
HiI have Vista Home Premium. I have a 320G hard drive that has four partitions and I am running out of space on the C: ...
Cannot create a new partition( error: not enough space)
Hi all,I just purchased a new laptop from Dell. Size of the C drive is 220 GB. Now I would like to create two more drive...
How to recover a missing partition
Hi,When partition Magic 8 fixed my hard drive at start up, I found that one partition missing after Vista SP1 was boots...
Should I partition? (new to Vista with new 750 gig hard driv
I am getting a new HP today with a 750gig hard drive. Vista Home Premium. 64 bit SP1. I've never used Vista.I seem to re...
Partition HD With Acronis Disk Director
Plan to format and re-install Vista Ultimate SP1. Would like to use Acronis Disk Director 10 to create 3 partitions on ...
How to partition
Hi evrybody,My drive is partionned in 2 parts. C is about 150 Gb D is about 350 GbI would like to add 1 partition E and ...
Recovery Partition
A friend of mine formatted my laptop (Toshiba Satellite-windows vista premium) and he deleted my 1.5GB recovery partiti...
Making a reinstallation disc from a recovery partition
I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 computer with Vista Home Basic and a recovery partition. I want to make a reinstallation cd ...
Inconsistent Partition Data
I have a Vista 64bit installed in a VMWare VM environment and resized the harddisk from 35 to 45 GB (35 is definitely t...
Partition Hard Drive
I just received a new laptop with vista ultimate, 200GB HDD, of which 175 is available on C:.When i go to shrink the 175...
restore recovery partition
hello my Emachine 3609 Vista 32 bit, now SP1 512 MB came w/recovery partition D, that is now DELETED,(was) and is ...
Goofed up GPT partition table... Data Lost?
I have a 320 GB drive in a USB external converter (the big plastic shell that turns any IDE drive into a USB 2.0 drive)...
Magic partition fails, then cannot install Vista, finally ca
Hi all,I am getting in a trouble. This morning I tried to install Vista in my laptop (which already had XP) to make a du...
Must i partition my c: drive
Do i have to partition my c: drive into two or more so as to seperate the portion occupied by the o/s from that used in ...
partition UNACCESSALE on vista ult x64 install - HELP???
hey guys recently i had trouble playing battlefield 2 due to a registry screw up... so i tried cleaning my registry etc ...
Make Partition in External Hardisk in Vista
Hello, i got a 320GB notebook external and i want to make 3 partition with respect to 120,120 and the rest (probably 58G...
Unable to create new "visible" partition
I have just purchased an Acer Aspire 8935g laptop, which comes with Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit (not sure why 64bit...
Partition Swapping
XPS/Dimension 630i. This came with a 600GB HDD and I added a 1.5TB HDD. The 600 came with Vista and I created a 100GB p...
Deleted boot partition. Broken Vista Installation
Hi all,I was tri-booting Xp, Vistax86 and Ubuntu. Xp and Vista were on one hard drive with ubuntu on another. Since I...
Not allowing partition - max limit
Hi Just got myself a Dell Inspiron 1525. It has a hardisk of 250GB. There are two partitions - HDisk drives - C: of 220...
Do I need a "Recovery (D)" Partition?
I just noticed that my desktop (Dell Inspiron) DOES have a separate hard drive partition labeled "RECOVERY (D)&quo...
How to change drive letter of active/boot partition
Have multi-booting setup on my laptop at home, but i want to change "D:" in vista to be S drive, though I can...
How big a restore partition
I want to build a PC & I want to create a restore partition so that I can reinstall Vista anytime that I want to. H...
How To Delete Extended Partition Containing Logical Volume?
In two days time I'm helping a friend with his laptop and one of the things I want to do is delete the extended partiti...
Cannot shrink partition, despite doing (I think) all the rig
I wish to shrink my C drive (which has 50Gb free), in order to expand my other partition.Following advice on these and ...
Deactivating an active drive partition
How do I or can I deactivate an active drive partition? Thanks Jim...
installing vista recovery in a partition
is it possible to create a recovery partition in my vista which will be available in the boot menu? my laptop originaly ...
What is the best way to remove an unwanted partition?
Hi,I currently have three partitions on my main storage array. One is Vista Ultimate. I like to experiment so I did a c...
Unable to access VIsta ro XP partition
Hello,I have three drives which consist of one that has Vista, another with XP and just recently i installed Windows 7 ...
Windows could not format a partition on disk0
I'm getting this error whilst trying to install Windows Vista X64 on my Samsung Spinpoint F1 500GB.Windows could not for...
Shrinking a partition
My C: drive is 136gb total size and has 33gb free. I want to shrink the partition by half the free space and create a ...
help! erased hd and cant create partition
i just got a new comp and i had vista installed and i made a xp partition but it was buggy and i couldnt boot into both ...
change vista boot partition
I have Vista installed twice on one hard drive, obviously on separate partitions.I want to delete one of the partitions ...
cancel partition
How do I cancel or eliminate a partition in vista?...
Recovery Partition in Vista 64 bit Home
Can anybody help me, Dell recovery partition D with factory image.wim copied in drive I external hard drive. How can i r...
another partition question
is it possible to reboot your system and load info from another partition? i'm new at this i admit...
Partition Problems - I think my Vista Partition is hosed
EnvironmentAMD 64 2.8g FX Dual ASUS M2N-E- SLI 4 GIG RAM HD1 (SATA) Western Dig. Raptor - 140 gig. 2 other HDs on pATADu...
Getting back to the hidden restore partition Vista.
Is there a disk or a utility that can get me back to put vista back on my machine?What I did was format the C: Drive an...
EASEUS Partition Master or Partition Magic?
you guys,i want to extend my system partition on Vista, and my friend Bob told me to use EASEUS partition Master or Par...
Which disk or partition is "\Device\Harddisk1\DR1"?
Which disk or partition is "\Device\Harddisk1\DR1"?...
Small Partition
I got my computer repaired and the man put windows vista on a partition of 8gb, I just updated windows and I am running...
Need help installing to a GPT partition
hello all,So, here is my issue. I am currently trying to install Vista Ultimate X64 SP1 and and I have used diskpart t...
How to creat recovery partition with recovery image in vista
I want to create a recovery partition on my windows Vista laptop. Pretty much i want to be pompted when the pc boots to ...
Adding XP in another partition users into Vi$ta
I am dual booting 32-bit XP and 64-bit Vi$ta. I wanna create a folder that's readable by an account of the same name fr...
Extending the Primary Partition
Hi I am running Microsoft Vista Home Premium, and for some reason the primary partition is only 20gb, (although the full...
reduce partition size
Just installed vista & was unable to specify the partition size. How do i resize the partition now? TIA...
Locked Partition
Hello, I'm new to this board and currently trying to look for a solution to my problem Hope experts/anyone can shed me s...
New partition in Vista home basic?
Hello, I am trying to find out if this would help or harm, and, if it would help, how to do it. I am wondering if it is ...
Partition Hosed?
In an attempt to add a second drive to my system, it damaged my partition, probably because I had the jumper set to mast...
page file issue with partition? / want to dual boot win7 wit
i'm wishing to create a partition in order to dual boot win7RC with vista (home premium).i started with wanting to shrin...
Vista Partition - Big problem.
Ok, so I had a hard disk (system) running Vista Business x64...It was divided into 2 partitions. - One 20GB System par...
Vista Home Premium Performance degradation on Partition
Why does Vista run OK on a smaller, slower dedicated HD than it does on a partitioned larger, faster replacement?My (3....
how to partition C drive into two
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Extending partition help
Well for some reason when i wiped my HD clean and tried reinstalling vista home premium i couldnt make a partition until...
recovery partition D, full disk warning
Something in my HP desktop is trying to write on this partition. I have had this problem since day one on a new comput...
File Transfer Speed - Partition to Partition
My PC is about 4 years old but running Vista Ultimate x86 SP1. It comes with dual Opteron 244x2(1.8MHz), 4MB DDR400 and...
Cannot reinstall vista after partition format
Hi Guys,Looking for a little help if I may. I'm looking to upgrade from 32bit ultimate to 64bit ultimate. I want to keep...
Missing Partition???
Strange thing happen the other day.....booted up my rig(500GB partitioned in two,1 for vista 32bit and the other for win...
XP -How to Move it to it's own partition <
I read a posting suggesting that you put your OS on a separate partition so when one has trouble and needs to recover o...
partition manager offer
The deal is- 'Disk Director' (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/) for $25! Only during this wee...
Restore bitlocker partition data without correct partition t
I installed Vista and encrypted OS-partition and an additional Data partition with bitlocker. After this my OS Partitio...
how to recover deleted partition in windows vista ultimate
Hello,(My computer configuration: Intel core2duo processor, Intel 945GCNL Mother board, 512MB RAM, 160 GB seagate hardd...
newbie: accessing files on foreign partition
Hi,I am having difficult getting online from the Linux partition I made yesterday and I need to access a file on the Li...
Changing default partition for storage of data in vista
My new laptop has two partitions. One (C) is labeled Vista OS & the other (D) data. Everything is going into the V...
Copy Recovery Partition
I have a new Lenovo Y410 notebook. It came with licensed Vista Home Premium pre-installed. The recovery partition is ...
ImageX and Capturing A Hidden Partition
How do I capture an image using ImageX with an OS that has a hidden partition?Thanks...
Partition
Does Vista have something that allows me to partition my HD or do I need another software. If someone could direct me I...
Partition Headache
Using Vista Home Premium, tried Kubuntu. I removed Kubuntu but can't seem to reclaim the partion it was on.I go to Vist...
Transfer image to another partition.
Can this be done? I have Vista Home Premium x64 OS installed on dive C:\. On another partition, I'd like to do a piecem...
Lost the drive letter D for my recovery partition...
I'm sorry if this is a duplicate but I don't believe my last posting sent...I lost my drive letter for my D recovery par...
Re-partition drive and install Vista
Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 6920 which came with a couple of EISA partitions. I was wondering if I use another copy of Vi...
HP and the hidden partition
I recently purchased a HP M9200t with Vista Premium 64 bit. I would like to make the hidden recovery partition, visibl...
Install windows 2008 on to 2nd partition and use it as D: dr
Is it possible to get the Windows 2008 install DVD to use the 2nd partition of a drive as D:?I've tried, really, I have...
inter partition large file transfer problem
When i try to copy a file >300MB from one location say Local Disk:D to Local Disk:E the computer freezes.So as to ta...
Increasing Partition Size in Vista Ultimate...
I'm trying to go entirely Vista. I have two partitions, the C.: partition is my Vista partition. The D.: partition it's ...
Need assistance to save the HP factory partition
Hi Everyone, I had a HP PC running windows vista home basic, it crashed and was not able to boot in vista. Startup repai...
Error 0x80070571 on D Partition
I partitioned my drive into 2 partitions: partition C for OS, and partition D for my data. I unstalled Vista on C. I h...
Shrinking Partition 148 GB Free, 50 GB Shrink?
I deleted the pagefile.sys and deleted the shadow copies by doing disk cleanup and selecting the delete shadow copy opt...
frustrated with access denied partition
hi all, i am a newbie here...anyways, I am running VISTA 32bit home edition. also working with EASEUS partition mgr 3 to...
BitLocker - why 1500 MB partition?
HiRunning Windows Vista x64 SP2 beta on a HP notebook.I use BitLocker and have no problems with it. But I have yet to di...
How can I partition my HD in Vista Premium sp1
I want to beta test Windows 7. I have Vista Premium sp1 on a 160gig hd (no partition) I would like to keep the vista pre...