Comments on: Partitioning in vista:How to partition hard drive or disk in windows vista?

By: Kishore

Kishore — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:16:47 +0000

Hi,
I would like to partition my hard disk which is 320 GB running with vista having a free space of 140 gb.When Itried doing that by shrinking as suggested above the max allowable shrink showing is 70 MB(not GB)Can any one plz help me in doing that.

Thank u in advance.

By: JK

JK — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:05:38 +0000

I have a 150gb disk, 100gb free but vista does not indicate any space to shrink. Any ideas? Have disabled account control and as far as I know am logged on as an administrator. Thanks for any help

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:30:41 +0000

You can read these:

http://techblissonline.com/password-protect-files-folders-and-compressedzip-files-in-windows-vista/
http://techblissonline.com/lock-folder-vista-password-protect/

By: tan

tan — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:34:27 +0000

i need to know that how to password protect the folders in vista

cheers

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:51:49 +0000

I'm not sure if it happened because of any other settings. Nirmal's last blog post..Backup and Share files with SugarSync- 3 Accounts GiveAway

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:50:59 +0000

When I tried to shrink my C drive, the primary partition and Vista installation drive it didnt allow me to reduce the size of C below its half value. Initially it was 80GB and when I shrunk it C could be reduced only to 40GB and not less than that. I think you got my point. Nirmal's last blog post..Backup and Share files with SugarSync- 3 Accounts GiveAway

By: techblissonline.com

techblissonline.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:05:37 +0000

Infact in vista, you can resize the partition (extend or shrink the volume size), without loosing data and without the need for a third party tool like Partition Magic.

But backing up your data, in the drive that you want to partition, is always a good practice, before you actually carry out the partition.

By: techblissonline.com

techblissonline.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:36:26 +0000

Aseem, Thanks and yes you can and that is what this article is about…you have to shrink an existing drive to create unallocated space and then use this space to create the new partition.

You can shrink, extend, create, and format partitions.What do you mean when you say that you could never change the size of a partition in vista?

By: techblissonline.com

techblissonline.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:45:34 +0000

Nirmal, You can shrink the volume to whatever size that is available.Not necessarily half.vista would automatically calculate the available shrink space after taking into account the space currently used by your data, on such drive.This available space may further be restricted by snaphots and pagefiles enabled on that drive.

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:56:47 +0000

Great tutorial. Can you repartition drives in Vista or do it have to be unallocated space? That's one thing I hated in Vista, you could never change the size of a parttion. Aseem Kishore's last blog post..Recover accidentally closed programs in Windows

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:18 +0000

I could shrink the volume to only half of its size. Say initially a 60GB dark disk can be shrunk only to 30 and 30. I think this applies mainly to primary partition. Nirmal's last blog post..Free Designer Templates for Microsoft Office 2007