WiFi Finder
Locate wireless services by a specific address, city, state, country, airport, or zip code.
Partitioning a Hard Drive in Vista
How to proceed with a PC that has Windows Vista preinstalled.
Dennis O'Reilly, PC World
I have a new HP PC with Windows Vista preinstalled, and I want to partition the hard drive. How do I do this in Vista?
tsys001, via PCWorld.com Forums
Senior Associate Editor Dennis O'Reilly responds: To create a new partition (Vista calls it a "volume"), click the Start button, type diskmgmt.msc, and press <Enter> to open the Disk Management utility. To create space for a new volume, right-click an existing volume and choose Shrink Volume. Vista will calculate the amount of space you can regain and will open a dialog box where you can enter the size of your new volume. (You'll also see the total size before the shrink, the maximum shrink available, and the size of the old volume after the shrink.) After shrinking, right-click the new "Unallocated" space represented in the program and choose New Simple Volume. Then follow the wizard's steps to create and format your new volume. When you're done, you'll see your new volume represented in Disk Management's graphs. Note that you can shrink only volumes that use the NTFS drive format. Your new PC's drive is almost certainly NTFS.
With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house. Live wirelessly. Print wirelessly.
PCW Download Guide
VoIP Web Demo
Related Storage Articles
- What Servers and Your Clothes Dryer Have in Common Running server technology at 208V is a step toward energy efficiency and increased ROI.
- Eye-Fi Explore Wireless SD Card The Explore takes an innovative concept one step further with geotagging and hotspot uploading, but it's still ultimately a kludge.
- 5 Cool Hacks for Your Entertainment Gadgets Add external storage to your TiVo, beef up your Xbox 360, rip DVDs to your media player, play your iTunes purchases on any device, and use your standard cable remote to skip commercials.
- Going Green at the U.S. Open IBM servers cut energy use while supporting higher traffic at USOpen.org.
- How Do I Back Up a Pre-USB PC? Edward Zolotarevsky still uses an old PC without USB ports. How should he back up the hard drive?
Best Prices on Hard Drives
Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB Hard DrivePrice: $146.00
My Passport Essential Portable 320GB Hard Drive - BlackPrice: $105.75
FreeAgent Desktop External 500GB Hard DrivePrice: $90.45
Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB Hard DrivePrice: $68.29
My Book Essential Edition 2.0 External 500GB Hard DrivePrice: $83.00
WD Caviar GP 1TB Hard DrivePrice: $131.50
-
CDW Virtualization Center What is Virtualization and how can it help you save money? Click here to find out.
-
Asus Laptop Showcase Ultra-fashionable thin and light notebooks with SmartLogon Face Recognition. Find out more...
-
HP Ink Center Bring improved color and brilliance to your printed material. Visit the Resource Center for more info...
PC World's Marketplace
PC World's Free Whitepapers
"Partitioning a Hard Drive in Vista" Comments