How to make Partition on Win Vista Basic

My notebook PC come with Win Vista Basic, and I would like to make a
partition to store data, how to make it? Is Vista can do it or need 3rd party
software?

I would just buy a USB drive or maybe a USB Flash or Thumb Drive.

"Steven" <> wrote in message
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> My notebook PC come with Win Vista Basic, and I would like to make a
> partition to store data, how to make it? Is Vista can do it or need 3rd
> party
> software?

Hi,

Vista can create a partition, but first you must have free space on the hard
drive to do it. Generally, most preinstalled systems do not have this and
you would have to use the disk management tool (diskmgmt.msc) to shrink the
existing system partition in order to achieve this. Once free space exists,
creating a partition is as simple as right clicking the free space and
selecting the option to create a partition. Format it once finished and it's
ready for data.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Steven" <> wrote in message
news:3789F12B-D6D6-4665-B97E-...
> My notebook PC come with Win Vista Basic, and I would like to make a
> partition to store data, how to make it? Is Vista can do it or need 3rd
> party
> software?

I try it but an error message show . Can you please advice step by step to
perform this task? and F.Y.I. my HDD have around 58 GB Free space in C:, and
now I would like to partition 30GB at C: and the rest at E: (D: is my DVD
Drive).

Please advice.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Vista can create a partition, but first you must have free space on the hard
> drive to do it. Generally, most preinstalled systems do not have this and
> you would have to use the disk management tool (diskmgmt.msc) to shrink the
> existing system partition in order to achieve this. Once free space exists,
> creating a partition is as simple as right clicking the free space and
> selecting the option to create a partition. Format it once finished and it's
> ready for data.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Steven" <> wrote in message
> news:3789F12B-D6D6-4665-B97E-...
> > My notebook PC come with Win Vista Basic, and I would like to make a
> > partition to store data, how to make it? Is Vista can do it or need 3rd
> > party
> > software?
>
>

Hi Steven,

Run diskmgmt.msc and right click C: to select "shrink volume". It will
calculate and tell you how much space is available to do this. Note that
some free space is reserved by the OS, so not all that is free will be
available. To get around that will require the use of a third party
partitioning utility. You may also experience better results if you defrag
the volume first.

Once the free space is created, simply right click it in the disk manager
tool and select the option to create a volume and follow the prompts.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Steven" <> wrote in message
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>I try it but an error message show . Can you please advice step by step to
> perform this task? and F.Y.I. my HDD have around 58 GB Free space in C:,
> and
> now I would like to partition 30GB at C: and the rest at E: (D: is my DVD
> Drive).
>
> Please advice.
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Vista can create a partition, but first you must have free space on the
>> hard
>> drive to do it. Generally, most preinstalled systems do not have this and
>> you would have to use the disk management tool (diskmgmt.msc) to shrink
>> the
>> existing system partition in order to achieve this. Once free space
>> exists,
>> creating a partition is as simple as right clicking the free space and
>> selecting the option to create a partition. Format it once finished and
>> it's
>> ready for data.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Steven" <> wrote in message
>> news:3789F12B-D6D6-4665-B97E-...
>> > My notebook PC come with Win Vista Basic, and I would like to make a
>> > partition to store data, how to make it? Is Vista can do it or need 3rd
>> > party
>> > software?
>>
>>