Wanna partition 16 gigs

[ragez0r]

hey, umm im trying to get partition magic to give me a 16 gig partition so i can test out windows vista.. can anyone help me out ? cuz it will only let me do 6 gigs ????

any help is greatly appreciated

 

[Tmagic650]

What is the total size of the drive you want to partition?

 

[ragez0r]

80 gb hd...


hmm post too short.. need 10 characters.. this should do it.. lol

 

[Tmagic650]

How much free space is left on the 80GB?

 

[ragez0r]

23 gb on the nose

 

[Tmagic650]

What exactly do you have on that drive? Movies? Music?

 

[ragez0r]

honestly i dunno.. mostly programs and games.. my movies and music is on another hard drive

 

[Tmagic650]

I don't think there's much overhead left on that drive to let Partition Magic do what you want. I have 21.5GB free space left on my Seagate 80GB. You can install a fresh drive and partition it the way you need. Then reinstall Windows XP and Windows Vista on that drive

 

[Samstoned]

look up paragon PM
it will free up the space you need and create your 16gb's for you
it can do this on reboot so the OS dos not interfer
acronis will do to

 

[ragez0r]

tmagic650: how much room do i need to partition a 16 gig chunk ?

samstoned: im guessing paragon pm is another form of pm.. cuz i have powerquest pm...ill look for it..thank u

 

[Tmagic650]

The programs documentation will tell you how much room you will need

 

[Tedster]

partition magic will work with low clearance drives. I partitioned a 55gb drive with only 10gb left on it.

 

[Tmagic650]

Tedster,
were you able to create a 10GB partition using the remaining free space?

 

[ragez0r]

no only 6 gb

 

[ragez0r]

so... it appears ive stumped every1 huh ? could it be the software company that made this partition magic ? i think this 1 is powerquest

 

[Tmagic650]

Paragon Partition Manager about $100
(Powerquest) Symantec/Norton Partition Magic about $70

 

[ragez0r]

k .. and i paid 0.. hehe wats yer point... so im guessing i gotta try the other partition magic ?

 

[Tmagic650]

Just for information purposes. They both look like good programs. I think they have free trial periods, but I'm not sure if the trials are full operating programs. Are you saying that you have used one? Powerquest must have sold their program to Symantec

 

[SNGX1275]

Try GParted. Its free, legally.

 

[ragez0r]

l-e-g-a-l-l-y... that word sounds so familiar.......

thanks.. gparted