new partition in vista not visible

i am running vista home premium. I had a c and d partition on the
same drive. I shrunk C by 50GB and formated with ntfs and named it
Z.
It seemed fine then I rebotted and it doesnt show up in Computer.
In Computer the C drive shows smaller by 50GB but not Z drive.
When I got to Disk Management, the top panel shows C with a reduced
size. The panel below which shows usage has C partition at its
original size before I created the Z drive.
Any ideas?
Help much appreciated! thx

What did you use to shrink your partition? Create your new partition?
Format your Partition?

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>i am running vista home premium. I had a c and d partition on the
> same drive. I shrunk C by 50GB and formated with ntfs and named it
> Z.
> It seemed fine then I rebotted and it doesnt show up in Computer.
> In Computer the C drive shows smaller by 50GB but not Z drive.
> When I got to Disk Management, the top panel shows C with a reduced
> size. The panel below which shows usage has C partition at its
> original size before I created the Z drive.
> Any ideas?
> Help much appreciated! thx
>

On Sep 14, 5:34 am, "John Barnes" <jbar...@email.net> wrote:
> What did you use to shrink your partition? Create your new partition?
> Format your Partition?
>
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> >i am running vista home premium. I had a c and d partition on the
> > same drive. I shrunk C by 50GB and formated with ntfs and named it
> > Z.
> > It seemed fine then I rebotted and it doesnt show up in Computer.
> > In Computer the C drive shows smaller by 50GB but not Z drive.
> > When I got to Disk Management, the top panel shows C with a reduced
> > size. The panel below which shows usage has C partition at its
> > original size before I created the Z drive.
> > Any ideas?
> > Help much appreciated! thx- Hide quoted text -
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I used Vistas Disk Management services. Everything was done through
the console. Shrink, then simple volume then format ntfs and assign
letter Z.