How To Partition A Hard Drive In Vista?

How To Partition A Hard Drive In Vista?

Have you move your OS to Vista ? If yes, I'm sure you want to know how to make new partition in Vista. For your info,in Vista new partition is called "volume".

OK let's get started. First go to Start Menu > Run and type in "diskmgmt.msc" and press Enter. It is actually a shortcut to open Disk Management Utility.

Then to create space for new volume(partition), right-click on existing volume and select "Shrink Volume" to resize the volume. Note that you can only shrink the volume that using NTFS format.

After that new dialog box will appear, asking you to enter a new size of your volume. Make sure to see total volume before shrinking process.

After "Shrinking" process done, right-click on "Unallocated" space and choose New Simple Volume.
Just follow the wizard in order to create and format your new volume. Then you're done !!!