How could I divided the hard disk drive into 2 or 3 drives?

Hi,

I'm running a vista home premium, how could I divided the hard disk drive
into 2 or 3 drivers? There is no option can be selected during reinstall.

Thanks~

Delete all partitions on a drive then when you are asked to create a
partition, enter in a number in between the largest size and the smallest
size. Then you will have room to set up a second partition. If you want 3
volumes on one drive, make enough room left over to set those up as well.

You can also shrink a volume from within a running copy of Vista. You can
then create another partition on the room that was created on a drive after
shrinking a volume.


"Bonnie" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm running a vista home premium, how could I divided the hard disk drive
> into 2 or 3 drivers? There is no option can be selected during reinstall.
>
> Thanks~
>
>

Bonnie;658326 Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a vista home premium, how could I divided the hard disk
> drive
> into 2 or 3 drivers? There is no option can be selected during
> reinstall.
>
> Thanks~


When you mention "reinstall", I'm guessing you mean Windows Vista, and
you don't mind losing whatever data is already on the hard disk?

When you get to the screen where you can select the destination drive,
you'll need to display the Advanced options, where you can delete the
existing partitions and create new ones.

But serious, hard disks are really cheap enough these days, that it may
just be easier to install a second hard disk just for data storage, and
when Vista is completely installed, just re-direct all your user folders
(Documents, Pictures, Videos, Favorites, etc) to that drive. This way
does have the bonus of later being able to re-install Windows without
losing data - although that in itself is no excuse for not following a
good backup policy.


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