Are you looking for free partition software for Vista?
Posted on October 20, 2007
Filed Under Vista Tips & Tricks
A good partition manager is always nice to have around. There are many good ones available but for most of them you need to pay to use them. Some of the good ones are Paragon Partition Manager, Norton Partition Magic and Partition Find & Mount Pro but like I said you have to pay for most of them. Well not any more
What do you use if you want to Create, Merge or Remove a Windows Partition?
If you are a home user or a small business owner like me than an easy (and simple) partition manager will do. Vista comes with his own build in partition software. This software lets you easily extend a partition volume, shrink a partition volume and lets you easily delete a partition volume.
Open your Windows Vista Partition Software.
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Go To Start.
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Click on all programs.
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Click on accessories.
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Open run.
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Type in “compmgmt.msc” (without the “”) and click on OK or press enter.
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Click on Storage – Disk Management and you’ll see your hard disks.
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Right click on the hard disks that you want to manage and you’ll see several options that you can use.
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Thanks for the tip. I was using partition magic, this comes handy.
I tried but you only can shrink and not at the extent you want. At the end i cannot partition it the way i want. i tried with partition suite it didnt worked either.
Say Cedric, what is it that you want to do exactly. Maybe I can help…
Vista’s Partition program will only let me partition the drive in 1/2 no smaller. Is this really all it can do?
No, I don’t think so. I’m not able to test it now but maybe someone else can who’s reading this article.
Hi, I’m having the same problem, Vista won’t let you shrink beyond a certain limit due to its System Restore and Page File functions - it reserves imovable space on the disk. There are workarounds, turn off system restore and disable Page File on the disk and then delete the system pagefile.sys - bit risky. Then you need to defrag and reboot. Its complicated, especially as deleting a system file is not easy. I think proper software would be best or reinstall and partition the drive on during the new install.
I’m still looking for an alternative.
Thank you so much for the above knowledgeable information that you have shared. It works for me. It’s very easy to use and most importantly it’s free. I tried to search many partition softwares but couldn’t find any, all of them with charge or free trial (that sucks). Again, thank you so much.
Thanks a lot !,,,It really works,,i had used this tools to remove my ubuntu partition and reformat it.