Volume shrinking in Vista premium for extra volumes ...

[gkgm]

Hey Guyz Thax in advance !!!

I have just purchased HP Pavilion dv2700 Entertainment Notebook PC. It has 250GB of HDD & has only 2 partitions
C:\> SYSTEM
D:\> HP Recovery Partition

It has about 180 gb size in C: so what I wanted to do is to have 4 more partitions in it. And I wanna it without having data loss and without altering the boot time default HP restore manager which is done by pressing F11 key. Pls help me guys ... Should I use any third party software or use the SHRINK in diskmgmt.msc ...pls help

[Just Rachel]

I used this on my Vista machine and didn't lose any data:  http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/

[couttsj]

Repartitioning the disk after the operating system has been loaded is not advisable. Windows optimizes itself for the the disk size that it is loaded on. It is for that reason that Dell asks you what partitioning that you want BEFORE they load the operating system.

J.A. Coutts

[Spawn]

Since you have just purchased the system, I would advise doing a fresh install, and setting up all the partitions during the process as well as saving all your data to a flash drive etc (If it is a just purchased PC, you shouldn't have much to save).  That way, you get what you want, but you don't mess with the initial Windows optimization.

Spawn