Vista c partition

If you want to see how much of this space is being taken up, run a command prompt as administrator and type: vssadmin list shadowstorage Mine is using the following amount on a 1TB partition: Used Shadow Copy Storage space: Also, you can always run Disk Cleanup to clean up old temporary files, old system dumps, etc.

Now if you want to resize, have a spare drive and want to get tricky.. DrDoU 2[H]4U. Joined Jun 4, Messages 2, I may be dead wrong but doesn't vista have the ability to resize partitions? MrF Gawd. Joined Feb 18, Messages DrDoU said:. Click to expand I did try to do it within Vista's own disk management, but it wouldn't let me resize the system partition.

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I have a laptop with total hard disk of gb. Originally Posted by skydelta. You can try the shrink volume feature in vista, check this post for the steps I hope this's what you were looking for. Make sure, you backup all your important data before doing this.

Is it advisable to partition an existing active bootable partition? I know many thrid part softwares allow it, but u stand a high chance of loosing some part of the available data.

Make sure to create backups of the existing data, so that u may not get offhanded later. I suggest you delete the Dell Diagnostics partition, because the diagnostics tool is also on the Dell Driver CD, if you are ever gonna use the tool. So you have to delete a partition that you have, and the Dell diagnostics partition, It probably says Heathy EISA Configuration in the disk management is not needed, and is also on the dell driver CD if needed some day. A primary partition acts just like a seperat hardrive.

So if you would want to install a dual boot, you could install another OS on a logical drive, but then the booting would happen on your C-drive. So therefore after deleting Dell Diagnostics Partition , It says Heathy EISA Configuration , then create an extended partition, so you perhaps later can create more than one logical drive. Because you can after deleting DDP create a primary partition, but then no more.

I understand what you meant. But I ended up formating and reinstalling Vista. Thanks anyways. My understanding is that partitioning a HD with Vista on it is not a good thing. It messes with the "prefetch" in Vista.